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Sites significant to the religion of ancient Palmyra, a Syrian city whose pantheon combined local Semitic deities with Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian influence along its position on major trade routes. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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What Defines This GroupingThe sanctuaries of a caravan city whose gods were Mesopotamian, Aramean, Arab and Greco-Roman at once. The temples were paid for and administered by named tribes and civic bodies who recorded the fact in Palmyrene Aramaic and Greek on the same stone, which makes Palmyrene cult unusually legible as a social act rather than only as a theology. 2 Attestation
Era of AttestationPalmyrene religious inscriptions run from the first century BCE to the third century CE. The great temple of Bel was dedicated in 32 CE; the city was sacked by Aurelian in 273 and its civic cults did not recover. 2 Learn More
Palmyrene sacred sites
This small group gathers a sacred site of ancient Palmyra, the caravan city of the Syrian desert whose religion blended Mesopotamian, Aramean and Greco-Roman gods, worshipped in grand temples at the crossroads of the ancient trade routes.
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