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Room 5 - The east, the start of the voyage
The olive tree started its voyage from the Phoenician cities, and was blessed under the protection of the God Melqart, later identified with Eracle or Hercules. On board of the Phonecian merchant’s ships sailing from Tiro the olive tree passed through the straits of Gibraltar and at Cadiz, in another temple dedicated to Melqart an image of an olive tree was placed to mark the end of the voyage and the end of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Landscapes depicting biblical olive groves, Phoenician merchants, aristocrats from ancient Egypt inhaling the refined perfumed oils mixed together with extremely rare relics originating from Syria, Egypt and the Palestine coastal region.
  

A cup representing the mouth of a lion
The use of this object of which there are very few known examples, remains a mystery. It may have been used as a container for cosmetics, or it could have been used as a vase for burning perfumed oils or for various rituals. Through a small tube liquid poured out of the lions mouth and was collected in the cup below. 

Material: steatite
Manufacturing technique: incision, polished
Origin: Rams-et-Tanjara
Dated: 900 B.C.
Use: still doubts