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Qatabanian tribal deity; lunar cycle; ancestral divine patron", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Chief deity of the Qatabanian kingdom (neighboring Saba to the south); lunar deity like the Sabaean Almaqah; the name \u02bfAmm means \"paternal uncle\" in Arabic \u2014 the tribal patron conceived in kinship terms as the divine \"uncle\" of the tribe; worshipped at Timna (Qatabanian capital); the Qatabanian equivalent of Sabaean Almaqah; attested in Qatabanian inscriptions from c. 400 BCE onward; illustrates the pattern of each South Arabian kingdom having its own patron lunar deity", "deity"], ["ENT_SAB_ANBAY", "Anbay", null, "South Arabian", "Deity", "Deity", "justice; oracle; prophecy; law", null, "regional", null, "B", "candidate_verified_name", "Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)", 0, 0, 0, "Qatabanian oracular and law-giving god, paired with \u1e24awkam; 'Anbay and \u1e24awkam' issue decrees in Qatabanian legal inscriptions.", "deity"], ["ENT_SAB_ATHTAR", "Athtar", null, "South Arabian", "Venus deity / War deity", "War Deity", "Venus; 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attested in votive cure-texts.", "deity"], ["ENT_SAB_DHAT_BADAN", "Dh\u0101t-Ba\u02bfdan", null, "South Arabian", "Astral deity", "Deity", "sun; fertility", null, "regional", null, "B", "candidate_verified_name", "Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)", 0, 0, 0, "The second solar 'Lady' of the Sabaean pantheon, paired with Dhat-Himyam; both invoked in temple dedications such as those from the Awwam sanctuary.", "spirit"], ["ENT_SAB_DHAT_HIMYAM", "Dh\u0101t-\u1e24imyam", null, "South Arabian", "Astral deity", "Deity", "sun; fertility", null, "regional", null, "B", "candidate_verified_name", "Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)", 0, 0, 0, "One of the two solar 'Ladies' (Dhat = 'She of') of the Sabaean pantheon, a hypostasis of the sun-goddess; her cult was carried to D\u02bfmt-period Ethiopia.", "spirit"], ["ENT_SAB_DHAT_ZAHRAN", "Dh\u0101t-\u1e92ahr\u0101n", null, "South Arabian", "Astral deity", "Deity", "sun", null, "regional", null, "C", "candidate_verified_name", "Early-antiquity fringe completion (v1.67.0)", 0, 0, 0, "A further solar 'Lady' epithet of the South-Arabian sun-goddess attested in dedicatory inscriptions, a localized hypostasis of Shams.", "spirit"], ["ENT_SAB_HAWBAS", "Hawbas", null, "South Arabian", "Deity", "Deity", "fertility; 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The older transcription \"Sin\" (with epithet Hawl) wrongly assimilated him to the Mesopotamian moon-god Sin; the modern consensus reads \"Sayin\". 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