text: One 8th century BC Aramaic inscription found in a tomb in a region of the Zagros Mountains close to a Mannaean royal tomb mentions ʿAttar as  (), that is a variant of ʿAttar whose epithet was the Old Arabic plural form of  (), , with ʿAttar-Muṣurūn thus being ʿAttar of the Marches. The name "the Marches" itself was the designation assigned by the Mesopotamians to the northern Ḥijāz and the Negev. The name of the deity is followed by the title  (), corresponding to Ancient North Arabian  () and Ethiosemitic  (), and meaning "the ruler."
  ʿAttar-Muṣurūn was thus the main deity of North Arabia, and the tomb in which his name was found inscribed likely belonged to an Arab who had been deported by the Assyrians to their northeastern border regions.
  In Qedar
  The Qedarite Arabs worshipped ʿAṯtar in his form of , whose name is attested in Ancient North Arabian as  (). Assyrian records mention this god, referred to in Akkadian as  (, reflecting the Aramaic form  rather than the Ancient North Arabian ), as one of the Qedarite deities whose idols were captured as war booty by the Neo-Assyrian king Sîn-ahhī-erība and was returned to the Qedarites by his son and successor Aššur-aḫa-iddina.