Macoraba(76 words)
[German version]
(Μακοράβα; Makorába). According to Ptol. 6,7,32, city in north-western Arabia Felix, already at an early time equated with Mecca. Based on the southern Semitic root mkrb (‘temple’, ‘sanctuary’ but also ‘altar’). In pre-Islamic Mecca there was a temple to the moon god Hubal, who was worshipped by the tribes in the neighbourhood.
Toral-Niehoff, Isabel (Freiburg)
Bibliography
H. v. Wissmann, Zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Altsüdarabien (SAWW, Phil.-histor. Klasse 246), 1964, 185, n. 380.
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Toral-Niehoff, Isabel (Freiburg),
“Macoraba”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 20 May 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e719180>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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