Adorned Statue of the Punic Goddess Tanit, 5th-3rd centuries BC, from the necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza (Spain), now housed in the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona)
The Punic religion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. However, significant local differences developed over the centuries following the foundation of Carthage and other Punic communities elsewhere in North Africa, southern Spain, Sardinia, western Sicily, and Malta from the ninth century BC onward. After the conquest of these regions by the Roman Republic in the third and second centuries BC, Punic religious practices continued, surviving until the fourth century AD in some cases. As with most cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Punic religion suffused their society and there was no stark distinction between religious and secular spheres.[1] Sources on Punic religion are poor. There are no surviving literary sources and Punic religion is primarily reconstructed from inscriptions and archaeological evidence.[2] An important sacred space in Punic religion appears to have been the large open air sanctuaries known as tophets in modern scholarship, in which urns containing the cremated bones of infants and animals were buried. There is a long-running scholarly debate about whether child sacrifice occurred at these locations, as suggested by Greco-Roman and biblical sources.
The Punicreligion, Carthaginian religion, or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety...
Look up Punic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a...
ancient Egyptian religion, or borrowed during antiquity from the Punicreligion, Judaism, Iberian mythology, and the Hellenistic religion. Some of the ancient...
The sign of Tanit or sign of Tinnit is an anthropomorph symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit, present on many archaeological remains of the Carthaginian...
frequent. Punicreligion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. However...
(Somalia) Ancient Egyptian religion (Egypt, Sudan) Kemetism Kushite mythology (along the Nile valley in Sudan) Punicreligion (Tunisia, Algeria, Libya)...
language, and followed a local variety of the ancient Canaanite religion, the Punicreligion. The Carthaginians travelled widely across the seas and set up...
Carthage. Founded in 1875, it houses many archaeological items from the Punic era and other periods. In 1975, excavations exposed a Late Roman house with...
The Third Punic War (149–146 BC) was the third and last of the Punic Wars fought between Carthage and Rome. The war was fought entirely within Carthaginian...
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies...
mythology) God Almaqah (Sabaean mythology) God Baal-hamon (Punicreligion) God Saggar (Eblaite religion) God Sin (Mesopotamian mythology) God Ta'lab (Arabian...
province of Africa. Many Roman Africans were generally local Berbers or Punics, but also the descendants of the populations that came directly from Rome...
comedic play written in the early 2nd century BC, appears to preserve a Punic term for "Phoenicians", which may be reconstructed as *Pōnnīm. Since little...
Phoenician votive inscriptions or Punic votive inscriptions are votive inscriptions in the Phoenician and Punicreligion, dedicated to a certain god or gods...
linked to Phoenician and Punicreligion, but above all to the way in which religious rites - and beyond that, Phoenician and Punic civilization - were perceived...
other traditional African religions (such as the Ancient Egyptian religion), or borrowed during antiquity from the Punicreligion, Judaism, Iberian mythology...
state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state. A state with an official religion (also...
the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000–264 BC), Routledge, 1995. ISBN 978-0-415-01596-7 Feeney, Denis. Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts...
represented with the crescent on ancient Punic artifacts and is associated with the ancient Punicreligion, especially with the Sign of Tanit. The Tunisian...
Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was greatly influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written on...
Mesopotamian religion was the original religious beliefs and practices of the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer, Akkad, Assyria...
in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices. The application of the modern concept of "religion" to ancient cultures has been questioned...
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic...
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