Menander of Ephesus
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Menander of Ephesus was the historian whose lost work on the history of Tyre was used by Josephus, who quotes Menander's list of kings of Tyre in his apologia for the Jews, Against Apion.
Bust of Menander, housed in the Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk, Turkey
Melqart
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Melqart was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He may have been central to the founding-myths of various Phoenician colonies
Phoenician Melqart, 6th century BC (Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture)
Bronze statuette of a priest of Melqart, 7th century BC National Archaeological Museum Madrid
Undated bust of Tyrian Melqart, National Museum of Denmark
Herakles-Melqart from Cyprus, early 5th century BC