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 74 HISTORY OF ART IN PIKKXICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. triad. Jlaal-Ilatntnon means " the burning Baal" ; ' he was, as his name suggests, a fire or sun god. 1 Baal-Hammon was figured as a man in the prime of life with rams' horns ; the arms of his throne were also carved in the shape of rams (Fig. 25). As for Tanit she was a Carthaginian Astarte ; she was the great Syrian nature goddess, but with her siderial and lunar character rather more strongly marked. 3 The Greeks identified her with Artemis and -'
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V^ Fir.. 25. Baal-Hammon. Terra cotta. In the Barre collection. the Romans with Juno; sometimes classic authors call her " the 1 This follows, at least, from the most probable etymology of the word. Others have been proposed, but have failed to meet with general approval. - Upon the type of Baal-Hammon, upon the rites with which he was worshipped at Carthage, and upon his association with Tanit, see M. BERGER'S Memoire sur un Bandeau troitrc dans les Environs de Batna et conserve au Afus'ee de Constantine (Gazette ari/ieofogiqite, 1879, p. 133). 3 A connection between the names Anat and Tanit may be devined rather than proved ; the intervening links are missing. But the conception is the same, and the two words are so much alike that they must have had a common origin. Our readers will remember that in the myth used by Virgil for his story of Dido, the queen's sister is named Anna.