Melqart-Herakles matando al Toro Celeste en una placa ebúrnea de Medellín
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aespa.2002.v75.128Keywords:
Phoenician art, Orientalizing art, Tartessos, Medellin, Ivory, Bull fighting, Phoenician mythology, Greek mythology, Tartessian mythology, Melqart, Herakles, Cretan Bull, Heaven BullAbstract
An ivory plaque found in the Tartessian necropolis from Medellin (Badajoz, Spain), dated about 600 B.C., shows a hero with a Phygian helmet killing a bull. The iconography of this scene can be interpreted a Phoenician-Tartessian myth of «Melqart killing de Heaven's Bull», which could be a precedent of the well-known Greek myth of «Herakles and the Cretan Bull». This ivory plaque is interesting not only for classical iconography but also to show the deep relation between the Phoenician and the Tartessian mythology.
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