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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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The stone of Elagabalos 901

and its worshippers regarded it as an unworked image of the Sun1.
The eagle, which on imperial coins of Emesa appears either upon
(fig. 738)2 or in front of the stone (fig. 739)3, seems to have been an

F'g- 738. Fig. 739.

1 Herodian. 5. 3. 4 f. iepwi/ro Si avroi 6eip i)\iip- toOt-op yap oi eirix^pioi oifiovai,
QowIkuv tpuvrj 'E\aiaydf}a\ov KaXovvrei. veins 5i avrip /xeyiffros narecKeiaaro avrov,
Xpv<Tip ttoWo) Kai dpyvpip KeKOGp.r]p.evos re Tro\vTe\eia. OpTjfftceveTcu 5e ov p.bvov irpos
Twf eirixupiuv, dXXa Kai iravres ol yeirvtuvres aarpdirai re Kai fia(ri\e?s (3dpfiapoi 0iXot^ws
'"'i/j.vrovai Tip Oeip eKdarov rod Itovs TroXitreXij dvad-fifiaTa. &ya\p.a fxkv oSv, Ciairep vap

EXXi/trii/ j) "Pap.aloLS, ovSev forijicc xupoTtoii\TOV, ffeov <pipov eiKbva' \l60s di ns (an
V-iyiaros, KaraBev irepitpep-qs, \-qyoiv is os-tir-riTa- Kwvoeidte airy <TXVfla! A^Xaii>d re ij xpoid.
Aii7reTi7 Te atirbv elvai aep-voKoyovaiv, ei-oxds t{ Tivas flpaxelas Kai tvtovs SetKvvovcriv, eiKbva
Te rfKLov dvipyaarov eivai diXovatv, ovrtv ^Xiirovres.

The solar character of the god is further attested by Dion Cass. 78. 31. 1 (ix. 410 Cary)
*«' n Kai iirb tov 'HXi'ov, 8v 'E\eydf3a\ov f7TiKaXoO<ri Kai fieyaXws BfrqaKevovaiv, &Wwv ri
Tivui, fiavreiwv avaireiodeis, Iul. Capit. v. Macrin. 9. 2 quarum maiori Alius erat Helio-
gabalus...nam Heliogabalum Foenices vocant solem, Avien. descr. orb. 1089 f. denique
nammicomo devoti pectora Soli | vitam agitant (sc. Emeseni). Hence the spelling 'IIX10-
7i/3aXos, Hcliogalialus, Eliogabalus (F. Cumont in Pauly—Wissowa Rcal-Enc. v. 2279),
'he official Roman title invictus Sol Elagabalus (Wissowa Pel. Kult. Rom."1 p. 366 n. 2),
and such inscriptions as Dessau Jtiscr. Lat. sel. nos. 4329 (Rome) aquila | Soli | Alagabalo |
iulius Balbillus, 4330 (Rome) Ti. Iullo (sit) Balbillo | s. Sol. Elagabali, | Eudemon lib. |
Patrono optimo, 4331 (Rome) Ti. Iul. Balbillo sac. Solis, \ Eutyches Augg. lib. ofici-|
nator a statuis, amico ] optimo. dedic. kai. Ian. | P. Cornelio Anullino II | et M. Aufidio
Frontone cos. ( = 199 A.D.), no. 4332 (Brigetio in Illyricum) deo Soli Alagabal. Ammudati
V°n which see the speculations of K. Tiimpel in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. i. 1868 ff.),
mil- leg. 1 Ad(iutricis) bis p(iae) f(idelis) cons[tantis].... See also the inscriptions listed
by Ruggiero Dizion. epigr. ii. 2089. A bronze coin of Elagabalus commemorates HAIA
and TTV0IA at Emesa (Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Galatia, etc. pp. lxv, 240 no. 21).

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Galatia, etc. p. 237 no. 6 pi. 27, 9 ( = my fig. 738) £M IC
n N (*) N a bronze coin struck by Antoninus Pius. The star on the stone is probably one
of the marks noted by Herodian. 5.3. 5 (supra
P" 9°i n. 1). Gold and silver coins issued by

)agabalus again show the stone ornamented
*tth stars (Cohen Monn. emp. row.'1 iv. 325 no.
' ng- ( = my fig. 741) gold, Paris, no. 17 silver,

■enna, no. 18 gold, G. de Ponton d'Amecourt,

wvenson—Smith—Madden Diet. Rom. Coins
P; 357)- Cp. the star that appears in the field of FiS 741-

1S £01ns (e-g. infra p. 902 fig. 743) and medallions (e.g. infra p. 904 fig. 745).

Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Galatia, etc. pp. lxiv f., 239 no. 15 pi. 27, 12 ( = my fig. 739)
^MlCflN KOAHN with ZK<P (527 of Seleucid era = 2i5 A.D.) a bronze coin struck

y Caracalla, showing the stone of Elagabalos at Emesa in a hexastyle temple with an
 
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