Caelestis

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Caelestis is a Romanized form of the North African goddess Tanit, venerated as a celestial mother and protector deity in Carthaginian and later Roman religion.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Caelestis canonical 2
Dea Caelestis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Romanized deity
celestial deity
deity
goddess
mother goddess
protective deity
associatedWith Tanit NERFINISHED
celestial sphere
fertility
motherhood
protection
category Carthaginian goddesses
North African deities
Roman goddesses
cultCenter Carthage NERFINISHED
North African cities
domain heaven
protection of community
sky
epithetLanguage Latin
epithetMeaning heavenly
equatedWith Juno Caelestis NERFINISHED
Tanit NERFINISHED
gender female
hasCulturalOrigin Carthaginian religion
Punic religion
hasOrigin Tanit
hasRomanName Caelestis self-link
iconographyAssociatedWith star and crescent
languageOfName Latin
preRomanCounterpart Tanit NERFINISHED
region Maghreb NERFINISHED
religion Carthaginian religion
Roman religion
role celestial mother
protector of city
syncretizedAs Caelestis self-linksurface differs
surface form: Dea Caelestis
timePeriod Punic period ONNED2
Roman Imperial period
typeOfCult celestial cult
veneratedIn Carthage NERFINISHED
North Africa NERFINISHED
Roman North Africa
surface form: Roman Africa

Roman Empire
worshippedBy Punic (Carthaginian) people
surface form: Carthaginians

Romans in Africa
worshipType local cult
state cult

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Caelestis hasRomanName Caelestis self-link
Caelestis syncretizedAs Caelestis self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Dea Caelestis