Translations:Alʿuzza/3/en

Relationship to Aphrodite

This complexity might be ironed out when looking at Hellenistic syncretism. In bilingual and in Greek sources Allāt is associated with Athena/Minerva while Alʿuzza is associated with Aphrodite/Venus. Earrings found in the Nabataean city of Memphis were matched with the imagery of Alʿuzza baetyls which were matched with jewellery of Aphrodite. In the region north of Nabataea Alʿuzza found her counterpart in Aphrodite and even the Egyptian goddess Isis, but there's no evidence that Hellenization made it to the Arabian peninsula so this association with Aphrodite or Isis may not have reached that far south. However, John of Damascus considered the stone at the Kaʿba to be the head of Aphrodite.