Al-Lat

c. 450 BCE – 630 CEattested

Ṭāʾif, Arabia

• Pre-Islamic Arabian

Pre-Islamic Arabian goddess whose worship Herodotus already knew about in the fifth century BCE, calling her Alilat. Her cube-shaped stone at Ṭāʾif was destroyed in the seventh century.

Known for

• named by Herodotus
• the sacred stone at Ṭāʾif
• one of the three daughters of the god

Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.

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