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Elagabalus and his Syrian god (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Emesa
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.05 Emesa
Service of god
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.03 Service of god
Syncretism
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.04 Syncretism

Keywords
Elagabalus

Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Elagabalus = “God Mountain” in Syriac.

Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 1.6-7:
Originally, he had the name Varius, but later he was called Elagabalus because he was priest of this god - whom he afterwards brought with him from Syria to Rome, funding a temple for him on the site of an earlier shrine of Orcus.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 1.6-7

Bibliography

Magie 1960, II 106-107

Magie, David. Scriptores Historiae Augustae. 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus

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