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Gender Feminine
Other Forms FormsSalammbô
Meaning & History
Greek and Latin form of the name of a Babylonian goddess of love, equivalent to Aphrodite or Venus. It may correspond to the once-attested Punic name šlmbʿl meaning "(the god) Dusk (is) (my?) Lord", in which the ending of the name comes from Ba'al, a title of various deities meaning "lord". This has also been used as an anglicized or simplified form of Salammbô in some English translations of the French historical novel Salammbô (1862) by Gustave Flaubert, in which the fictional title heroine is a virgin priestess of the goddess Tanith and the daughter of Hamilcar Barca.