Hawbas (HWBS) is a South Arabian deity who became one of the four imported gods genuinely worshipped by the population of the Dʿmt polity of the northern Horn, alongside Astar, Almaqah and Dat Himyam. In the fixed list of five supreme deities invoked in the Ethio-Sabaic dedicatory formulae Hawbas occupies the second place, between Astar and Almaqah. In its South Arabian background the name is associated with ʿAṯtar (the deity here called Astar), and the precise gender and astral function of Hawbas remain debated in scholarship.