Bomilkar (fleet commander)
Bomilkar , Punic Bodmelqart (Bdmlqrt, "In the hand of Melqart "), was a 3rd century BC. Living Carthaginian naval commander.
Nothing is known about the origin of Bomilkar, but he himself probably had two sons and the office of sufet . In the second Punic War he acted as a nauarchus (admiral) and led the Carthaginian troops in Grossium 215 BC. Supplies and 4,000 Numidian soldiers to. Apparently Bomilkar also carried out supply tasks in the following years. 213 BC He entered the port of Syracuse with his ships , but withdrew to Africa due to the numerical superiority of the Roman troops who besieged the city under Marcus Claudius Marcellus .
Another attempt in 212 BC BC to get help again to Syracuse failed due to difficult wind conditions at Cape Pachynos. Although Bomilkar had assured the politician Epikydes that he would face the Romans for the sea battle, he avoided them and sailed back to Taranto , which hastened the fall of Syracuse. He could not really help the people of Taranto either. He finally withdrew. It is unclear whether he later functioned as a nauarchos because of his failures.
literature
- Klaus Geus : Prosopography of the literarily attested Carthaginians . Leuven 1994.
- Benedikt Niese : Bomilkar (4) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 680 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Glenn Markoe: The Phoenicians . Stuttgart 2003, p. 131.
- ↑ Werner Huss: Carthage . Munich 1995, p. 104.
- ↑ Hanno and Hannibal, see Klaus Geus: Prosopography of the literary testified Carthaginians . Leuven 1994, p. 18, with references.
- ↑ Cf. Klaus Geus: Prosopography of the literarily attested Carthaginians . Leuven 1994, p. 19.
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| SURNAME | Bomilkar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Fleet Admiral Kathargos |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |