Ceramic statue of goddess Tanit. Punico-Ebusitan culture (5th-3rd century BCE).
Decorated representation of the goddess Tanit
Punico-Ebusitan culture (5th-3rd century BCE)
Figure: ceramic. Earrings: gold.
Necklace: glass paste beads
Puig des Molins Necropolis (Eivissa)
Tanit was the tutelary and protective goddess of Carthage, the great Punic metropolis of the central Mediterranean. Her cult was of great importance, and spread throughout the area of Punic influence. She was a divinity of a lunar nature,
linked to the agricultural cycle, and also to fecundity and fertility, like a Great Mother. Numerous
votive representations of Tanit have been found in Ibiza.
Exhibited at the Catalan Museum of Archaeology, Barcelona, Spain. Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC).
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