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Baaltars (combination of " Baal" and " Tarsus"; Aramaic: בעלתרז ''B‘LTRZ'') was the tutelary deity of the city of Tarsus in the
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/ref> and also on coins of the early
Baaltars (combination of " Baal" and " Tarsus"; Aramaic: בעלתרז ''B‘LTRZ'') was the tutelary deity of the city of Tarsus in the Persian Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, wikt:𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎶, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an History of Iran#Classical antiquity, ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Bas ...
.Hastings, p.686/ref> His depiction appears on coins of the Persian governors ( satraps) of
Cilicia
Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coas ...
at Tarsus before the conquests of Alexander the Great, in the 5th and 4th century BCE, such as Datames, Pharnabazes, and Mazaios
Mazaeus or Mazday (Aramaic: 𐡌𐡆𐡃𐡉 MZDY, Greek: Μαζαῖος ''Mazaios'') (died 328 BC) was an Achaemenid Persian noble and satrap of Cilicia and later satrap of Babylon for the Achaemenid Empire, a satrapy which he retained under Ale ...
,/ref> and also on coins of the early
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (; grc, Βασιλεία τῶν Σελευκιδῶν, ''Basileía tōn Seleukidōn'') was a Greek state in West Asia that existed during the Hellenistic period from 312 BC to 63 BC. The Seleucid Empire was founded by the ...
. The equivalent of Baaltars for the Greeks was Zeus.
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* Wayne G. Sayles, ''Ancient Coin Collecting VI: Non-Classical Cultures'' Krause Publications, 1999, * James Hastings, S R Driver, ''A Dictionary of the Bible: Volume IV, Part II (Shimrath - Zuzim)'' The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004See also
* Achaemenid coinage {{MEast-myth-stub Persian mythology Achaemenid Empire Baal