The name Abyla has been said to have been a Punic name (Lofty Mountain or Mountain of God) for Jebel Musa, the southern Pillar of Hercules. The name of the mountain was in fact Habenna (, , Stone or Stele) or ʾAbin-ḥīq (, , Rock of the Bay), in reference to the nearby Bay of Benzú. The name was hellenized variously as Ápini (Greek: ), Abýla (), Abýlē (), Ablýx (), and Abílē Stḗlē (, Pillar of Abyla) and in Latin as Mount Abyla (') or the Pillar of Abyla (').