The pantheon of Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert, headed by the triad of Bel, the sky and cosmic order god whose temple dominated the city until its 2015 destruction, and his two attendant gods Yarhibol, the sun and oracle of a nearby spring, and Aglibol, the moon. Palmyrene religion drew on Mesopotamian, Aramaic and Arab strands alike and is known mainly through the city's abundant bilingual Palmyrene Aramaic and Greek inscriptions, dedicatory reliefs and temple architecture.
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Era of AttestationAttested from Palmyrene inscriptions from the first century BCE, through Palmyra's height as a caravan city and the third century CE Palmyrene Empire, until the city's decline after Roman reconquest in 273 CE. 1 Correspondences & Relations
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This source names Arabs directly: "The pantheon of Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert, headed by the triad of Bel, the sky and cosmic order god whose temple dominated the city until its 2015 destruction, and his two..."
Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman PeriodTed Kaizer
This source names Mesopotamians directly: "The pantheon of Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert, headed by the triad of Bel, the sky and cosmic order god whose temple dominated the city until its 2015 destruction, and his two..."
Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman PeriodTed Kaizer
This source names Palmyra directly: "The pantheon of Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert, headed by the triad of Bel, the sky and cosmic order god whose temple dominated the city until its 2015 destruction, and his two..."
Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman PeriodTed Kaizer
This source names Palmyrene Religion directly: "nearby spring, and Aglibol, the moon. Palmyrene religion drew on Mesopotamian, Aramaic and Arab strands alike and is known mainly through the city's abundant bilingual Palmyrene Aramaic and Greek..."
Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman PeriodTed Kaizer
This source names The Pantheon directly: "The pantheon of Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert, headed by the triad of Bel, the sky and cosmic order god whose temple dominated the city until its 2015 destruction, and his two..."
Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman PeriodTed Kaizer
Sources
1. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source The Religious Life of Palmyra: A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period
Ted Kaizer, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002Kaizer's study of Palmyrene worship as the basis for the pantheon overview
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