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    Jupiter Dolichenus was a Roman god whose mystery cult was widespread in the Roman Empire from the early-2nd to mid-3rd centuries AD. Like several other...
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    The Votive relief of Jupiter Dolichenus was discovered in the ancient city of Perrhe in the kingdom of Commagene in the southeast of modern Turkey. It...
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  • inscriptions dedicated to Mithras in other sanctuaries, especially those of Jupiter Dolichenus. Mithraism was not an alternative to other pagan religions, but rather...
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    headdress. Hadad was equated with the Greek god Zeus, the Roman god Jupiter (Jupiter Dolichenus), as well as the Babylonian Bel.[citation needed] The Baal Cycle...
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    throughout the Roman Empire at sites with a Capitol (Capitolium) Jupiter Dolichenus, from Doliche in Syria, originally a Baal weather and war god. From...
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    "Commagene, Communication and the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus". In Michael Blömer; Engelbert Winter (eds.). Iuppiter Dolichenus: Vom Lokalkult zur Reichsreligion...
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    of the Roman Imperial period and was brought to central Europe as Jupiter Dolichenus, whose cult centre lay in Doliche, northwest of Carchemish. The bronze...
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    divine epithet Caelestis ("Heavenly, Celestial") and is paired with Jupiter Dolichenus, a Roman god popular with members of the Roman army.: Iovi aeterno...
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    empire, the Anatolian storm god with his double-headed axe became Jupiter Dolichenus, a favorite cult figure among soldiers. Roman scholars such as Varro[citation...
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    The numerous epithets of Jupiter indicate the importance and variety of the god's functions in ancient Roman religion. Jupiter's most ancient attested forms...
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    deity Azzanathkona (Atargatis). The Dolicheneum was a temple where Jupiter Dolichenus and the god called Zeus Helios Mithras Turmasgade may have been worshiped...
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    Statue of Jupiter Dolichenus from Carnuntum, erected by Atilius Primus, an evocatus of the Legio XIV Gemina. The dative form ēvocātō is visible at left...
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    inscriptions dedicated to Mithras in other sanctuaries, especially those of Jupiter Dolichenus.(p 158) Mithraism was not an alternative to Rome's other traditional...
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    public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially Jupiter, who embodied just rule. As a result of the Punic Wars (264–146 BC), when...
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    Tarhunna has also been identified with the later Armenian and Roman god, Jupiter Dolichenus. Çineköy inscription Piotr Taracha: Religions of Second Millennium...
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    for whom devotional objects have been found include Mithra, Jupiter, Jupiter Dolichenus as a form of worship for Baal, Mercury, Neptune, Silvanus, Pan...
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    centurion's helmet and armour, found in Carnuntum Statue of the god Jupiter Dolichenus Reconstructed Thermae Sutter Fichtner, Paula (2009). Historical Dictionary...
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  • a temple to that deity in Ancient Rome Jupiter Dolichenus also known as Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus The Optimus Maximus keyboard This disambiguation...
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    invincible") was an epithet utilized for several Roman deities, including Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo, and Silvanus.: 124  It had been in use from the...
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    well-being of two unnamed emperors, it was erected by priests of Jupiter Dolichenus, possibly between 208 and 211 AD. The first municipal elections were...
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  • professional background. Soldiers primarily worshipped Mithras or Jupiter Dolichenus and primarily eastern merchants frequented the temple of Serapis at...
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  • Artemis Cult of Dionysus Greco-Buddhism Greco-Roman mysteries Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus Cult of the Great Gods Cybele's Cult Dionysian mysteries Orphism Eleusinian...
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    through 30 CE). Jupiter Dolichenus – Roman reimagining of a foreign, "oriental" deity comparable to the head Olympian figure, Jupiter. Cult of Trophonius...
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    (118–138 AD) A hoard of silver votive plaques dedicated to the Roman God Jupiter Dolichenus, discovered in Heddernheim, near Frankfurt, Germany, (1st–2nd centuries...
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  • Coele-Syria and ultimately of Syria Euphratensis. The worship of Jupiter Dolichenus became widespread from the mid-second to the mid-third century CE...
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    refounded as the polis of Antiochia on the Taurus. A votive relief of Jupiter Dolichenus which was found in the city's necropolis in 2001 derives from this...
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    to have been deposited in a shrine dedicated to the Roman God of Jupiter Dolichenus. Heddernheim was first mentioned in documents in 801 AD as Phetterenheim...
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  • Taurica, they set up their camp and built a fortress and a temple of Jupiter Dolichenus on the coast of the harbor of Balaklava, then called Symbolon Limen...
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    headdress. Hadad was equated with the Greek god Zeus; the Roman god Jupiter, as Jupiter Dolichenus; the Indo-European Nasite Hittite storm-god Teshub; the Egyptian...
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    shows a bearded man in a Phrygian cap and Roman armor, identified as Jupiter Dolichenus, holding a thunderbolt and likely a bipennis. This piece, dating from...
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