(more precisely, milk-quart=city king) The chief god of Tyrus in Phoenicia, also venerated in the daughtercity of Carthage. He is connected with the sea and sea-faring and on coins he is shown riding on a sea-horse. At a later date, he was also seen as...

MELQART, whose name means "king of the city" (milk qart), was the patron god of the Phoenician city of Tyre and one of the major gods of the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He was also known as Baal Sur (Lord of Tyre) and was identified...

Melqart (less accurately Melkart, Melkarth or Melgart (Greek disposed of the letter Q (Qoppa), replacing it with additional use of K (Kappa) and G (Gamma)), Akkadian Milqartu, was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as Eshmun protected...