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===Baʿal Hammon===
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[[Baal Hammon|Baʿal Hammon]] was worshipped in the [[Ancient Tyre|Tyrian]] [[Phoenician colonization|colony]] of [[Carthage]] as their [[King of the Gods|supreme god]]. It is believed that this position developed in the 5th century&nbsp;BCE following the severing of its ties to [[Ancient Tyre|Tyre]] following the 480&nbsp;BCE [[Battle of Himera (480 BC)|Battle of Himera]].{{sfnp|Moscati|2001|p=132}} Like Hadad, Baʿal Hammon was a [[fertility god]].{{sfnp|Lancel|1995|p=197}} Inscriptions about [[Punic religion|Punic deities]] tend to be rather uninformative, though, and he has been variously identified as a [[moon god]]{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} and as [[Dagan (god)|Dagan]], the [[grain god]].{{sfnp|Lipiński|1992}} Rather than the bull, Baʿal Hammon was associated with the [[Sheep|ram]] and depicted with his horns. The archaeological record seems to bear out accusations in Roman sources that the Carthaginians [[Tophet#Carthage and western Mediterranean|burned their children as human sacrifices]] to him.{{sfnp|Xella|Quinn|Melchiorri|Van Domellen|2013}} He was worshipped as Baʿal Karnaim ("Lord of the Two Horns"), particularly at an open-air sanctuary at Jebel Bu Kornein ("Two-Horn Hill") across the bay from Carthage. His consort was the goddess [[Tanit]].{{sfnp|Lancel|1995|p=195}}

The epithet Hammon is obscure. Most often, it is connected with the NW Semitic ''ḥammān'' ("[[brazier]]") and associated with a role as a [[sun god]].{{sfnp|Walbank|1979|p=47}} [[Ernest Renan|Renan]] and Gibson linked it to Hammon (modern Umm el-‘Amed between [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] in [[Lebanon]] and [[Acre, Israel|Acre]] in [[Israel]]){{sfnp|Gibson|1982|p=39 & 118}} and [[Frank Moore Cross|Cross]] and [[Edward Lipiński (orientalist)|Lipiński]] to Haman or Khamōn, the classical [[Mount Amanus]] and modern Nur Mountains, which separate northern [[Syria]] from southeastern [[Cilicia]].{{sfnp|Cross|1973|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bJqwWRDOMgEC&pg=PA26 26–28]}}{{sfnp|Lipiński|1994|p=207}}