relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 2396,ENT_ARA_ALLAT,received_as,ENT_APHRODITE,high,"Herodotus (Histories 3.8, c. 430 BCE) is the earliest and most explicit ancient equation of an Arabian goddess with a Greek one: he names the two Arabian deities as ""Orotalt"" (= Dushara/Allah) and ""Alilat"" (= Al-Lat), and explicitly states ""Alilat is the same as Aphrodite."" He specifies Aphrodite Ourania (Heavenly Aphrodite), the celestial aspect of Aphrodite associated with the morning star / Venus — the precise identification that connects Al-Lat to the Venus goddess tradition spanning Inanna/Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Astarte (Canaanite/Phoenician), and Aphrodite (Greek). Herodotus's account predates the Nabataean kingdom proper (which emerges as a distinct polity c. 4th c. BCE) and documents the pre-Nabataean north Arabian goddess tradition. The existing Athena equation (ENT_ARA_ALLAT received_as ENT_ATHENA) reflects the later Palmyrene period identification; the Aphrodite equation via Herodotus is the earlier and more widespread ancient testimony. SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES 3.8.",SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,reviewed,PER_ARA_PRE_ISLAMIC 4287,ENT_ARA_ALLAT,member_of,ENT_NAB_PANTHEON,high,"Allat is a leading Nabataean goddess, attested at Iram and across the Hawran.",SRC_HEALEY_NABATAEAN_RELIGION,reviewed, 4293,ENT_ARA_ALLAT,equated_with,ENT_ATHENA,high,Allat is identified with armed Athena at Palmyra and Petra.,SRC_HEALEY_NABATAEAN_RELIGION,reviewed,