I. Name
Sîn is the name of the Babylonian moongod, attested as theophoric element in Assyrian and Babylonian personal names. In the Old Testament in the names Sanherib (sanḥērı̄b), Sanballat (sanballaṭ) and Shenazzar (šenʾaṣṣar).
II. Identity
The name Sîn (earlier Suen, Suin) survived in the Aramaic speaking world as the name of the moongod residing in Harran (J. N. Postgate, RLA IV/2–3 [1973] 124–5; Drijvers 1980; Tubach 1986; Green 1992). This cult, already attested at the beginning of the second millennium in…