La fundación de la ciudad de Gadir y su primer santuario urbano de Astarté-Afrodita
The foundation of Gadir was the result of poor harbour conditions of the sanctuary of Melqart in Sancti Petri, requiring good anchorage soon. The city may have been founded by Syrian-Phoenician Arwad, which would explain the presence of the sanctuary of Astarte-Aphrodite and the altar of Kronos, but...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/667763 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/667763 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Fundación de Gadir Santuarios de Melqart y Astarté Arwad Trabajos de Heracles Historia |
| Sumario: | The foundation of Gadir was the result of poor harbour conditions of the sanctuary of Melqart in Sancti Petri, requiring good anchorage soon. The city may have been founded by Syrian-Phoenician Arwad, which would explain the presence of the sanctuary of Astarte-Aphrodite and the altar of Kronos, but the Assyrian conquest of Arwad by Tiglath-Pileser I, in the eleventh century BC, facilitated the Tyrian hegemony in the tenth century BC. The sanctuary of Astarte-Aphrodite offered nautical protection, oracles and sacred prostitution to sailors and traders and created a sacred space for women in the new colony. From Hiram I reign in the mid-tenth century BC, began to celebrate the “awakening of Hercules”, a hiero gamos or sacred marriage of the king or the priest and the goddess Astarte or her priestess, between the time of death god Melqart on the funeral pyre until his egersis or resurrection on the third morning. This scene was also represented at the doors of the Herakleion of Gadir, which we think it had 20 scenes depicted, not 10 as mentioned by Silius Italicus. This proposal explains for the first time that the description contained only 6 of the best known labours of Heracles and the alleged lack of some works developed in the West as the theft of cattle of Geryon and stealing the apples of the Hesperides by Herakles |
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