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Baal Hammon

Phoenician and Punic Deities
Baal Hammon Ram-Horned Head

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.

Facts
Attestation
Veneration Today
Historically attested; no continuous cult 1
Historicity
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1
Belief
Theology
Polytheistic: many gods 1
Iconography
SymbolSourced to the subject's own account
Baal Hammon was depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns, worshipped as king of the gods at Carthage and across North Africa. 2
Function
Domain / Function
Fertility and generation 1
Identity
Gender
Male 1
Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
2. Ba'al Hammon (Wikipedia)
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He was depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns.
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