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Septimius Severus and Belus of Apamea (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
12 Assyrian Identity
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


 		Keywords
Adad
prophecies
Period
3rd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Bel of Apamea = Adad.

Cassius Dio 79.8.5-6:
Importance was attached to the utterance of Zeus called Belus, a god worshipped at Apamea in Syria; for this god, years before, while Severus was still a private citizen, had spoken these words to him: “Eyes and head like those of Zeus, who delights in the thunder, slender his waist like Ares, his chest like that of Poseidon.” And later when he had become emperor and again consulted this oracle, the god gave him his response: “Your house shall perish utterly in blood.”

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Cassius Dio 79.8.5-6

Bibliography

Cary 1969, IX 356-359Cary, Earnest. Dio's Roman History. On the basis of the version of Herbert Baldwin Foster. 9 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1969.
Dalley 1998, 51Dalley, Stephanie. “Occasions and Opportunities.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 9-55.

Amar Annus


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