Allat

'The Goddess' of the Nabataeans, bride of Dushara; armed protectress equated with Athena, 'the goddess who is in Iram'.

Domains

• war
• motherhood

Powers

• Wage war and protect as armed Athena-like goddess

Epithets

• 𐢀𐢂𐢞 𐢄𐢉 𐢍𐢀 𐢊𐢛𐢌 nabataean · ʾlt dy b-ʿrm'Allat who is in Iram' — her cult-seat epithetIram (Wadi Ramm) temple inscription (primary)
• allat di bi-iram Nabataean Aramaic · Allat di bi-Iram · cultAllat who is at IramNabataean dedicatory inscription, temple at Iram (Jabal Ramm) (primary)

Relations

• spouse: Dushara'The Goddess', paired with Dushara as his bride in Nabataean dedications.John F. Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus (2001) (secondary)
• equated with: AthenaReciprocal of greek_hesiod_athena.equated-with — Allat's sanctuary sculpture and Hellenized dedications render her in Athena's armed type. Preserves the armed city-protectress; breaks on Allat's aniconic betyl tradition and her bride-of-Dushara role.J. F. Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans (2001), on Allat-Athena statuary at Wadi Ramm (secondary)
• equated with: AllātThe Nabataean Allat and the wider Arabian al-Lat are the same 'the Goddess', split here by transmission corpus. Preserves the armed protectress; the Hijazi cult centers on Taif, the Nabataean on Wadi Ramm.J. F. Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans (2001); R. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs (2001) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Nabataean inscriptions (Iram, Bosra); Hawran dedications (primary); Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus (secondary)