abstract:Melqart (Phoenician: , lit. Milk-qart, "King of the City";Also transcribed as Melkart, Melkarth, and Melgart Akkadian: Milqartu) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre.
In order to establish their credentials within the Hellenic world the Carthaginians conflated the Greek hero, Heracles (better known as Hercules), with Melqart, his Tyrian counterpart.