skywizard
25th November 2014, 19:23
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While excavating at the ruins, the team uncovered a plastered-over relief buttressing
the walls of the Mar Solomon monastery. When the team painstakingly revealed
the relief, they were surprised to find a completely unknown Roman deity.
The relief depicted a bearded man emerging from a plant or a flower while grasping a stalk. The unknown god may have been one of the sub-deities, or Baals, of the main god of the temple, Jupiter Dolichenus, a Romanized version of the storm god of the local population. The rosette and crescent, and astrological symbols in general, are all associated with Near Eastern religious traditions, whereas the bearded man's face was likely inspired by Roman traditions, said Gregory Woolf, an classicist at St. Andrews Unviersity in Scotland.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/48892-unknown-roman-god-discovered.html
peace...
http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/072/291/i02/roman-god-stele.jpg?1416866393
While excavating at the ruins, the team uncovered a plastered-over relief buttressing
the walls of the Mar Solomon monastery. When the team painstakingly revealed
the relief, they were surprised to find a completely unknown Roman deity.
The relief depicted a bearded man emerging from a plant or a flower while grasping a stalk. The unknown god may have been one of the sub-deities, or Baals, of the main god of the temple, Jupiter Dolichenus, a Romanized version of the storm god of the local population. The rosette and crescent, and astrological symbols in general, are all associated with Near Eastern religious traditions, whereas the bearded man's face was likely inspired by Roman traditions, said Gregory Woolf, an classicist at St. Andrews Unviersity in Scotland.
Source: http://www.livescience.com/48892-unknown-roman-god-discovered.html
peace...