Baal Hammon

Baal Hammon was the supreme god of ancient Carthage and Numidia, a weather god held responsible for the fertility of vegetation and honored as king of the gods. His name joins the Phoenician title Baal with Hammon, drawn from Ammon, a Libyan god whose oracle stood at the Siwa Oasis, reflecting a Punic and Berber syncretism. He was depicted as an elderly, bearded figure with curling ram's horns, worshipped across North Africa and the Carthaginian colonies of the western Mediterranean including Sicily, Sardinia and Iberia. His female counterpart was the goddess Tanit, already recorded on this atlas; the Romans identified him with Saturn and the Greeks with Cronus.