- (/ˌɛləˈɡæbələs/), Aelagabalus, Heliogabalus, (/ˌhiːliəˈɡæbələs/) or
simply Elagabal (Aramaic: 𐡀𐡋𐡄𐡀𐡂𐡁𐡋 ʾĕlāhaʾgabāl) was an Arab-Roman sun god, initially...
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Emesa (Homs), Syria,
where he
served as the head
priest of the sun god
Elagabal from a
young age.
After the
death of his cousin, the
emperor Caracalla...
- 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...
- 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...
- name "Elagabalus"
followed the
Latin nomenclature for the
Syrian sun god
Elagabal, of whom he was a priest: 11 . At the age of 14, in 218,
Elagabalus was...
-
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...
- as the
rightful heir to the empire. Elagabalus,
chief priest of the god
Elagabal, was
proclaimed emperor by the
soldiers of
Legio III
Gallica (Gallic Third...
- period, and may have been the
shrine briefly dedicated to the
Syrian god
Elagabal by the
emperor Elagabalus in the
third century CE.
Since the 1950s, the...
-
Praetorians opposed the new
emperor Elagabalus,
priest of the
oriental cult of
Elagabal, and
replaced him by his 13-year-old
cousin Severus Alexander in 222. In...
