 The epithet Hammon is obscure.Most often, it is connected with the NW Semitic "ḥammān" ("brazier") and associated with a role as a sun god.Renan and Gibson linked it to Hammon (modern Umm el-‘Amed between Tyre in Lebanon and Acre in Israel) and Cross and Lipiński to Haman or Khamōn, the classical Mount Amanus and modern Nur Mountains, which separate northern Syria from southeastern Cilicia.