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> I thought it was well accepted I was in a museum in Sardinia (was part of Carthage) sometime ago and saw some of the tophets mentioned in the article. The ar
by stargazer-3 3y ago
> I thought it was well accepted
I was in a museum in Sardinia (was part of Carthage) sometime ago and saw some of the tophets mentioned in the article. The argument from the linked article was repeated on one of the info boards - that the Romans demonized their enemies and lots of our sources on alleged child sacrifice come from them. I am not sure about the Carthagenian sources on the matter, but they did not make it into the argument, so I assume the evidence was either slimmer or newer.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoThere are other (non-Roman) sources describing child sacrifice in Phoenician societies.
- vintermann 3y agoYeah, but they weren't exactly friends with the Phoenicians either, were they?
- ffgjgf1 3y agoWhy didn’t they accuse their other enemies of this? Anyway, on balance I think it’s pretty reasonably to say that it’s more likely that Carthaginians practiced child sacrifice to some extent.