- Homs (Arabic: حِمْص, romanized: Ḥimṣ [ħɪmsˤ];
Levantine Arabic: حُمْص, romanized: Ḥomṣ [ħɔmsˤ]),
known in pre-Islamic
times as
Emesa (/ˈɛməsə/ EM-ə-sə;...
- The
Emesene (or
Emesan) dynasty, also
called the
Sampsigeramids or the
Sampsigerami or the
House of
Sampsigeramus (Arabic: آل شمسيغرام, romanized: ʾĀl...
-
Client Priest King from
Syria who
lived in the 1st century. He
ruled the
Emesan kingdom from 54
until 73. His name may
derive from the
Aramaic root ŠḤM...
-
priest Julius B****i**** in Emesa, Syria,
modern day Homs, as part of the
Emesan dynasty. She had a
younger sister,
Julia Domna, who
would later become Roman...
- ascent, due to
geographic and
ethnic similarity between himself and the
Emesan emperors. Philip's rise to
prominence began through the
intervention of...
-
invoking the
local deity Sol Invictus. Some
scholars have
connected him to an
Emesan priest active in this period,
known as Sampsiceramus. It is not
clear whether...
- Elagabalus.
Elagabalus was
initially venerated at
Emesa in Syria,
where the Arab
Emesan dynasty acted as its priests. The name is the
Latinised form of the Arabic...
- same cognomen, Alexander. The name
Alexander is a
dynastic name in the
Emesan dynasty.
Alexander became a Bestiarius, also
known as an
animal fighter...
-
issued under Elagabalus do not use
INVICTUS for
Roman Sol, nor for the
Emesan Solar deity Elagabalus.
Hijmans 2009, pp. 509–548. A
mosaic floor in the...
- such as the
matriarch of the family,
Julia Domna, who
descended from the
Emesan dynasty of priest-kings of
Elagabalus and who
married Septimius Severus...
