Tanit was a Carthaginian lunar goddess. A consort of Baal, she was the Patron of Carthage. She may have been related to the Phoenician goddess Astarte (Ishtar).
She is also a Berber goddess.
Her sign, a symbol found on many ancient stonecarvings, appears primitively as a trapezium closed by a horizontal line at the top and surmounted in the middle by a circle (the horizontal arm was often terminated either by two short upright lines at right angles to it or by hooks.) Later, the trapezium was frequently replaced by an isosceles triangle.
