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    The Carthage tophet, is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, Tophet or Topheth (Biblical Hebrew: תֹּפֶת, romanized: Tōp̄eṯ; Greek: Ταφέθ, translit. taphéth; Latin: Topheth) is a location in Jerusalem...
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    the Carthage Tophet: Age estimations attest to infant sacrifice at the Carthage Tophet." Antiquity 87.338 (2013): 1191–1199. Cf., Warmington, Carthage (1960...
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    deposited between 400 and 200 BC in the tophet discovered in the Salammbô neighbourhood of present-day Carthage, with the practice continuing until the...
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    of the traditional picture of Carthage, but much of the material is still ambiguous.[original research?] Carthage tophet Asterius Chapel C. Edmund Bosworth...
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    and Shadrafa (Liber Pater). Inscriptions in the tophet at Motya in western Sicily, as in Carthage, frequently refer to Baal Hammon, but do not refer...
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    place called Tophet. The ancient descriptions were seemingly confirmed by the discovering of the so-called Tophet of Salammbô in Carthage in 1921, which...
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    practice itself. Several apparent tophets have been identified, chiefly a large one in Carthage, dubbed the Tophet of Salammbó, after the neighbourhood...
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    sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet: Age estimations attest to infant sacrifice at the Carthage Tophet". Antiquity. 87 (338): 1191–1199....
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    supports, such as mosaics or even on ceramics. The excavations of tophet of Carthage, Sousse and Motya have highlighted the particularly important diffusion...
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