[3] Baal Hammon was worshipped only in North Africa and Carthagenian colonies of the western mediterranean including Iberia, Sicily, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands.

[7] Historians Crake & Walbank dismiss a claim that Hammon meaning "Brazier" in ugarit which implies that Baal Hammon is equated to Apollo which is a solar deity, the original author of this claim describes his own conclusions as "clearly very hypothetical" [7] Frank Moore also dismisses a hypothesis based on arguments presented for a connection to Hamōn, the Ugaritic name for Mount Amanus, a peak in the Nur Mountains that separate Syria from Cilicia, this connection makes Baal Hammon a Moon god which the author sees as another reason why this connection as insufficient.

This practice was recorded by Greeks and Romans, but dismissed as propaganda by modern scholars, until archeologists unearthed urns containing the cremated remains of infants in places of ritual sacrifice.

Some scholars believe this confirms the accounts of child sacrifice, while others insist these are the remains of children who died young.

Attributes of his Romanized form as an African Saturn indicate that Hammon (Amunus in Philo's work) was a fertility god.