Baalat Gebal (Phoenician: 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤕 𐤂𐤁𐤋, BʿLT GBL; also romanized as Ba’alat Gebal or Baalat Gubal; literally "Lady of Byblos"), also known as Bēltu...
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73. Sohaemus was the Priest of the Syrian Sun God, known in Aramaic as El-Gebal. Through marriage, Drusilla became Queen consort of the Roman client kingdom...
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death in 73 and was the priest of the Syrian Sun God, known in Aramaic as El-Gebal. At an unknown date in his reign, Sohaemus became the patron of the Roman...
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the paternal uncle of Julius Bassianus, the Emesene High Priest of El-Gebal. El-Gebal is the Aramaic name for the Syrian Sun God. Agrippa served as a Primipilaris...
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dynasty; the earliest known ones being issued for celebrating the cult of El-Gebal under the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, 138-161. They depict an eagle perched...
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by Sanchuniathon with Ba'alat Gebal the tutelary goddess of Byblos, a city which Sanchuniathon says that El founded). El is depicted primarily as a warrior;...
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Temple of the Sun. The temple was dedicated to the Syrian Aramaic Sun God El-Gebal (counterpart to the Phoenician Baal) in Emesa. The younger sister of Maesa...
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Balbilus has two further namesakes the Emesene Priests of the cult of El-Gebal in Rome, Tiberius Julius Balbillus and his relative, Titus Julius Balbillus...
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those by Elagabalus. Elagabalus served as the high priest at the Temple of El-Gebal, the local Arab sun god. He brought the image of this god, a conical black...
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Gebel el-Silsila or Gebel Silsileh (Arabic: جبل السلسلة - Jabal al-Silsila or Ǧabal as-Silsila – "Chain of Mountains" or "Series of Mountains"; Egyptian:...
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two leading city-states of Phoenicia Ampi Amia Arqa Baalbek Botrys Berut Gebal - One of the oldest sites of civilization Sarepta Tripoli, Lebanon Arvad...
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El Jadida (Arabic: الجديدة, romanized: al-Jadīda, [alʒadiːda]) is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 96 kilometres (60 mi) south...
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Kamid el-Loz, also spelled Kamid al-Lawz, is located in West Bekaa, Lebanon. The settlement has a population numbering several thousand, mostly Sunni,...
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Shahar (god) (category Children of El (deity))
Shahar as the god of the dawn. Shahar and Salim are the twin children of El. As the markers of dawn and dusk, Shahar and Shalim also represented the temporal...
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Mot (god) (category Children of El (deity))
The main source of the story of Mot ("Death") is Ugaritic. He is a son of 'El, and according to instructions given by the god Hadad (Ba'al) to his messengers...
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Meretseger (section Rock shrine in Deir el-Medina)
Meretseger was the patron of the artisans and workers of the village of Deir el-Medina, who built and decorated the great royal and noble tombs. Desecrations...
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Atargatis ʿAṯtar Azizos Baʿalat Gebal Baʿal Baʿal Berith Baʿal Ḥammon Baʿal Marqod Baʿal Ṣapon Baʿalshamem Chemosh Dagan El Eshmun Haddu Kotharat Kothar-wa-Khasis...
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between Tyre and Acre, he found two Phoenician inscriptions dedicated to El-Ḥammon. Others have proposed Ḥammon as a syncretic association with Amun,...
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Algiers (redirect from El Djazzair)
that sits above the Martyrs National Museum. Other landmarks include Djamaa el Djazaïr, the 3rd biggest mosque in the world; Botanical Garden Hamma; Culture...
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Atargatis ʿAṯtar Azizos Baʿalat Gebal Baʿal Baʿal Berith Baʿal Ḥammon Baʿal Marqod Baʿal Ṣapon Baʿalshamem Chemosh Dagan El Eshmun Haddu Kotharat Kothar-wa-Khasis...
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equated with the Semitic high god 𐤀𐤋 (ʾĒl) in the personal name 𐤊𐤌𐤔𐤀𐤋 (Kamōš-ʾĒl), meaning "Chemosh is ʾĒl." Chemosh was identified with 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓...
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& T. Clark, ISBN 978-0-567-02592-0. Liverani, Mario (1998), Le lettere di el-Amarna 1. Le lettere dei "Piccoli Re", Brescia{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location...
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Baal Berith (redirect from El Berith)
Baʿal Berith (Hebrew: בעל ברית, lit. 'Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped...
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Apet Āpertra Ảrit-ȧakhu Ảriti Arsinoe II Astarte Ausaas Ba-khati Ba'alat Gebal Baiut-s-ảmiu-heh Bastet (Ailuros, Baast, Baset, Bast, B'sst, Ubaste) Bat...
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Ba'alah, the wife or female counterpart of Ba'al (also Belili). Ba'alat Gebal, goddess of Byblos, Phoenicia. Ba'al Hammon, god of vegetative fertility...
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city-states Amalek Arqa Arwad Ascalon Aštartu Azzati Bashan/Hauran Beruta Gebal Dimasqu Gezer Gibeon Hazor Jericho Jerusalem Kenites Kumidi Lakisha Megiddo...
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Kingdom, the Egyptians began to refer to the patron goddess of Byblos, Baalat Gebal, as a local form of Hathor. So strong was Hathor's link to Byblos that texts...
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Albright proposed in 1939 that she was a form of the "lady of Byblos" (Baalat Gebal), while René Dussard suggested a connection to "Asherat" (e.g. the biblical...
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possibly transitioned into Abrahamic monotheism by way of the god El, whose name "El" אל, or elah אלה is a word for "god" in Hebrew, cognate to Arabic...
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