text: The worship of ʿAṯtar in his form of  was also practised by the Qedarites, as attested by an inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Aššur-aḫa-iddina mentioning this deity in Akkadian as  (), with the dissimilation of the epithet  into  reflecting the influence of Akkadian  () and Aramaic  (), meaning "priest."
  In Palmyra
  At Palmyra,  where lived a large Arab population, the Arab ʿAṯtar was assimilated with the Arameo-Canaanite great god, Baʿal, in the form of , later  (), that is Baʿal-ʿAṯtar.
  In Canaan
  The masculine form  () existed among the Canaanite peoples as an astral deity, which is attested by his mention along with the Moon-God Šaggar in the 9th or 7th century BC Dayr ʿAllā inscription, the subject of which is largely the Sun-goddess Šamāš, thus forming a triad of the Sun, Moon, and Venus similarly to the one attested in South Arabia, and suggesting a South Arabian religious influence in Moab. The hypostases of ʿAṯtar who appear among the various Canaanite peoples might have been an indigenous Transjordanian variation of his or local adaptations of the North Arabian variant of the god.
  In Phoenicia
  A possible Phoenician variant of  might be attested as a theophoric element  () in a personal name from Byblos,  ().