Dat Himyam (goddess of the Dʿmt pentad)

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Dat Himyam ('she of Ḥimyam') is a South Arabian deity, probably astral in character, who became one of the four imported gods genuinely worshipped in the Dʿmt polity, with Astar, Hawbas and Almaqah. In the standard liturgical sequence of the Sabaic and Ethio-Sabaic dedications she occupies the fourth place, after Almaqah. Her older identification as a sun-goddess rested on Ditlef Nielsen's now-rejected model of a South Arabian divine triad; an astral nature for her nonetheless cannot be excluded. On the territory of the Old Sabaean kingdom only a single temple of Dat Himyam has been localised.

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