Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Site of Palmyra' has mentioned 'Deity' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [121] Similar to the Second Temple, the sanctuary consisted of a large courtyard with the deity's main shrine off-center against its entrance (a plan preserving elements of the temples of Ebla and Ugarit). | WIKI |
| [404] The city's chief pre-Hellenistic deity was called Bol,[405] an abbreviation of Baal (a northwestern Semitic honorific). | WIKI |
| [406] The Babylonian cult of Bel-Marduk influenced the Palmyrene religion and by 217 BC the chief deity's name was changed to Bel. | WIKI |
| [405] This did not indicate the replacing of the northwestern Semitic Bol with a Mesopotamian deity, but was a mere change in the name. | WIKI |
| Second in importance, after the supreme deity,[407] were over sixty ancestral gods of the Palmyrene clans. | WIKI |
| [417] Bel had Astarte-Belti as his consort, and formed a triple deity with Aglibol and Yarhibol (who became a sun god in his association with Bel). | WIKI |
| [410][418] Malakbel was part of many associations,[417] pairing with Gad Taimi and Aglibol,[419][419] and forming a triple deity with Baalshamin and Aglibol. | WIKI |
| [421] Each of the city's four-quarters had a sanctuary for a deity considered ancestral to the resident tribe; Malakbel and Aglibol's sanctuary was in the Komare quarter. | WIKI |
| [429] The Palmyrene deity was commonly identified with the Roman god Sol and he had a temple dedicated for him on the right bank of the Tiber since the second century. | WIKI |
| The position of the Palmyrene deity as Aurelian's Sol Invictus is inferred from a passage by Zosimus reading: "and the magnificent temple of the sun he (i.e. | WIKI |
| [431] Some scholars criticize the notion of Malakbel's identification with Sol Invictus; according to Gaston Halsberghe, the cult of Malakbel was too local for it to become an imperial Roman god and Aurelian's restoration of Bel's temple and sacrifices dedicated to Malakbel were a sign of his attachment to the sun god in general and his respect to the many ways in which the deity was worshiped. | WIKI |