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Elagabalus as a deity (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
12 Assyrian Identity
06 Visual arts and architecture
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


 		Keywords
Elagabalus
garments
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 28.2-3:
Once he harnessed lions to his chariot and called himself the Great Mother, and on another occasion, tigers, and called himself Dionysus; and he always appeared in the particular garb in which the deity that he was representing was usually depicted.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Historia Augusta, Elagabalus 28.2-3

Bibliography

Magie 1960, II 160-161Magie, David. Scriptores Historiae Augustae. 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1960.

Amar Annus


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