ATARGATIS FANUM, the temple of a goddess worshipped by the Syrians and Parthians, having the face of a woman and tail of a fish, and called Derecta by the Greeks. Her temple stood in the city Bamyce, called afterwards Hierapolis. It was extremely rich, inasmuch that Crassus, in his march against the Parthians, spent several days in weighing the treasure. Vossius makes the name of this goddess Phœnician, from Addir-dag, "the great fish."