Translations:Manāt/9/en

In Tayma, Manāt is called 'lht 'lht', Goddess of Goddesses. Manāt is found more in theophoric names than in prayers, however, especially in Dedan where we find 10 different forms of personal names that have Manāt but only one prayer (JS 177). Manāt is absent from Nabataea outside the northern Hejaz. There are no prayers to Manāt in Safaitic but Manāt does show up in two theophoric names. Outside of Nabataea, Manāt was popular among Thamudic-writers across the peninsula and was frequently invoked in prayers. She is even called st slm mnwt, the Lady of Peace, Manāt. Although She was not known in the northern centers of Nabataea, Manāt is attested in Palmyra, often invoked with the God Ba'al Hammon. Inscriptions in the Temple of Bel mention the Arabian Manāt along with the Aramaean Agibol, Babylonian Herta and Nanai, and Canaanite Reshef among others reflecting the cosmopolitan nature of the city. Manāt and Ba'al Hammon were brought to Palmyra by the tribe Banu Agrud and were considered the Gads (Fortunes) of that tribe. Manāt cult even traveled with the Roman army and we find an inscription mentioning Her with Ba'al Hammon in Hungary, Roman Dacia, written by a Palmyrene. In South Arabia worship of Her was virtually non-existent aside from one inscription in Ma'in from the 5th century BC.