Emar, but there is no indication that one of the few temples identified during excavations belonged to him. In the first millennium BCE While Ugarit ceased to exist during the Late Bronze Age collapse, possibly due to the activity of the Sea Peoples, the worship of Yarikh continued elsewhere in the first millennium BCE. Phoenician and Punic sources No explicit references to Yarikh occur in any Phoenician sources, such as inscriptions from Byblos, Tyre and Sidon. The research of Phoenician religion is considered difficult due to the scarcity of written materials and the small number of direct references to deities other than the principal patron of each city, such as Baalat Gebal in Byblos, Eshmun in Sidon or Melqart in Tyre. The role of astral deities such as Yarikh was small, possibly due to their lack of a connection to maritime trade, shared by many of the major deities of this culture. The Phoenician version of the Karatepe bilingual mentions the sun and the moon in a context which might indicate that deities corresponding to them are meant, but they are not singled out in such a way as the weather god Baal is in the same document. In known Punic sources, Yarikh is similarly absent from inscriptions, though he does appear in theophoric names. One attested example is ‘bdyrḥ, "servant of Yarikh." Similar evidence exists for another moon god, Saggar, who might have functioned as a personification of the new moon in Punic religion. Lunar symbols are present on Punic stelae, though since the accompanying inscriptions usually only mention the heads of the pantheon, Baal Hammon and Tanit, it has been argued that they represent the former of these two deities, rather than Yarikh. However, no textual sources support the theory that Baal Hammon was a lunar deity, and the fact that in Palmyra he was treated as entirely separate from the local lunar god Aglibol might be evidence on the contrary. Additionally, it is possible that said symbols, as well as other similar astral ones, do not represent any specific god, but are meant to illustrate the celestial nature of the main deities. Ammonite and Moabite sources As of 2000, only a single certain attestation of Yarkih from the kingdoms of the ancient Transjordan has been identified. One of the Ammonite kings bore the name yrḥ'zr (Jeraheazar), "Yarikh is my helper," as attested in an inscription on the