I would like to thank Professor Corinne Bonnet and Giuseppina Marano for their support for this publication. I also would like to thank them and Dr Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider for inviting me to the workshop «Naming the Gods in Graeco-Roman Syria» at the University of Toulouse. I am also grateful to the anonymous peer-reviewers, Eivind Seland, and Tomáš Glomb, for their precious comments and improvements to the text. Thanks for Gwendolyne Knight for proofreading the article. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 892166.