Tinge

Berber goddess Tinge/Tinjis, eponym of Tangier and wife of the earth-giant Antaeus (corpus berber_anti). Named in the batch prose of berber_anti ('Pomponius Mela makes the goddess Tinjis (eponym of Tangier) his wife'); materialized here. The English/Latin form Tinge leads; native Berber Tinjis and Greek Tingis are given in the term-fields. Classified deity (eponym/tutelary goddess).

Domains

• place and eponymy

Powers

• lend her name to the city of Tangier

Relations

• spouse: Antaeus

Sources

• Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia 3.10.
• Bates, O. (1914). The Eastern Libyans: An Essay. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Plutarch, Sertorius 9 (the giant Antaeus at Tingis).