- (/ˌɛləˈɡæbələs/), Aelagabalus, Heliogabalus, (/ˌhiːliəˈɡæbələs/) or
simply Elagabal (Aramaic: 𐡁𐡋𐡄𐡂𐡀𐡋 ʾĕlāhgabāl or 𐡁𐡋𐡄𐡀𐡂𐡀𐡋 ʾĕlāhaʾgabāl; Arabic:...
- Syria,
where since his
early youth he
served as head
priest of the sun god
Elagabal.
After the
death of his cousin, the
emperor Caracalla,
Elagabalus was raised...
- was
expanded and
rededicated to the god
Elagabal, the
patron deity of his
homeplace Emesa in Syria.
Elagabal was
personified by a
conical black stone...
-
Latin nomenclature for the
Syrian sun god
Elagabal, of whom he had
become a
priest at an
early age.
Elagabal was
represented by a large, dark rock called...
- god he
might have been: some
scholars opted for the sky god of Emesa,
Elagabal,
while others preferred Malakbel of Palmyra. In the
revisionist view, there...
-
Roman aureus depicting Elagabalus. The
reverse commemorates the sun god
Elagabal....
-
Emesene dynasty and
served as a high
priest to the
local cult of the sun god
Elagabal. Domna's
older sister,
Julia Maesa,
would become the
grandmother of the...
- Severus,
Elagabalus and his
mother saw this as an
opportunity to
install Elagabal as the
chief deity of the
Roman pantheon. The god was
renamed Deus Sol...
- century, it was
still celebrated in Emessa, Syria, in
honour of the god
Elagabal. The
Roman emperor Elagabalus (r. 218-222), who was of
Syrian origin, even...
-
palmyrenischer Inschrift "Gott Berg"
steht die
umstrittene Etymologie des
Namens "
Elagabal" (ilah gabal) fest"
Birley 2002, pp. 71–72. Ball 2000, p. 115,
after Kropp...
