Stone portrait of Baal Hammon Phoenician deity who would become Zeus in Greek mythology The god has Semitic features and a small crown on his head - 32669

Stone portrait of Baal Hammon Phoenician deity who would become Zeus in Greek mythology The god has Semitic features and a small crown on his head - 32671

The goddess Tanit is portrayed as a triangle with arms and legs and a small head. Her representational poverty is linked to Punic religious practices that required deities to have different morphological characteristics depending on the city. She is the goddess of fertility and the wife of Baal Hammon, a deity of Egyptian derivation, the god of lightning and who would later be assimilated by the Gercians as Zeus - 32315