Abstract
Like other ancient Near Eastern cities, Ḥamat was called rabbah: “the Great one” (Amos 6, 2). This title was also attributed to other cities, to queens of Ugarit and to the great goddess of Byblos : Ba‘alat Gubal. Represented as feminine personifications, towns have been called “Mother”, like in the Greek “Metropolis”, and their suburbs were called “Daughters”. The Semitic concept of the town as a “Lady” became, in the classical period, a constitutive element of the picture of the oriental Tyche as a woman wearing a mural crown. The head of the Amman Tyche is especially pertinent, since this city was called Rabbat-‘Ammon in the Hebrew Bible. A mosaic from Madaba represents three important cities as women wearing the characteristic crown of the Tyche.
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