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Gold foils depicting Artemis and Zeus from Thaj, eastern Saudi Arabia
Location of Thaj in Easter Arabia not far from the Arabian Gulf A golden foil depicting Artemis A golden foil depicting Zeus
November 19, 2023 at 12:14 AM
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#Al'uzza was worshipped by the #Nabataeans in #Elusa in #Palestine before the city converted en masse to #Christianity in the 4th century it was an important #religious center that hosted an annual festival, with a temple dedicated to the worship of Al'uzza (#Venus)
August 21, 2023 at 4:23 AM
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"من أجل عودة آلهته، صلى لي فأنعمت عليه و على آلهته: عثترسمين و دأي و نهى و رضو و أبيريلو و عثتركوروما وآلهة العرب، و صورهم المخبلة رممت وقوة آشور، بعلي، و اسمي عليها كتبت ثم رددتها له ".

- منشور أسرحدون القرن السابع قبل الميلاد

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prism | British Museum
Hollow, hexagonal, clay prism, flat base, slightly convex top, circular holes in centre of top and base, Esarhaddon, history of the king's reign and account of the construction and "opening of the pal...
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October 1, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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 The Semitic/North Arabian god Baalshamin/Baalsamay was worshipped all the way in Armenia
Although Barsamin came to Armenia from Semitic world (the fact docu-mented, beside his name, by Moses' reference to Syrians venerating Barsam and the Assyrian origin of his statue at Tordan), a certain role of Iranians in the transmission of his cult is evident: the Armenian form of the name with r in the place of Semitic I needs explanation.10 This explanation was in fact given in 1895 by H. Gelzer, who saw here Iranian mediation, taking into account the marginal position of I in Old Iranian and the inclination to replace it with r in more widely accepted borrowings, such as Babiru from Akkadian Bab-ilu "Babylon"11 Attestations of Ba alshamin on Iranian soil are weaker: brbsm[y]n in Parthian is the name Bar Ba 'al Samin of an Aramaean inhabitant of Dura Euro-pos, 12 and his apparent namesake brbysmyn in a Christian Sogdian text is a regular rendering of Barba Samin, Barbasymas, the Syriac martyr.13 What attracted my curiosity towards Barsamin is the very similar theonym in Sogdiana: f The metathetic form Vresman coexists in Eastern Middle Iranian with more regular borrowings: Sogdian B'srßn,20 Bactrian Bropaavo, Khotanese visra-manu. From the above we see that Vreshman obtained a special high position in the Buddhist pantheon of Sogdiana and Khotan and below we put together indications that he stepped beyond the purely Buddhist Sogdian contexts.21 The name Brysm&ntk "Slave of Vreshman" appears in the epitaph on the magnificent Sino-Sogdian sarcophagus of Wirkak (494-16.06.579) from Xian;22 he is the oldest son of the deceased. All the other names in the inscrip-tion-as well as the rich iconographic program on the sarcophagus have few Buddhist connotations if any.23 The name of the deceased is wyrk'k, lit. "small wolf, Wulfila"; his father is wnwk "victorious"; grandfather rstntk "slave of (deity of) rightfulness",; his wife wywsh "dawn, Aurora"; and younger sons Srymtßntk "slave of Demeter" and pr'wtntk, probably "slave of Fravashi?" 24 We can add that in the short Sogdian Vresman and Khotanese Vrrisqmam, however, is name of a Buddhist deity; he is the Indian Vaisravana and at first glance does not have anything to do with Iranian religions. The popular variant form of this name is Vaisra-mana (in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit), Pali Vessamana, Uigur Bisamin, Chinese Pisha(men) ELySF9, Early Middle Chinese *bji-sai-man and ultimately Japanese Bishamonten.16 In Hindu tradition, Vaisravana is the side-name of Kubera, the god of richness; in Buddhism he gains extreme popularity as guardian of northern directions and chief of the four guardians of the world (lokapalas), or Heavenly kings. He is attested in the Buddhist Sogdian invocation Avalokitesvarasyanama-stasatakastotra (P8, 42) in the list of deities in Sanskrit and (in the case of first three of them) their Sogdian correspondences: nmcw Br'm prom' '3rw yntr "S§By mx'tyß wysprkr n'r'y'n frysmn "I pay homage to Brahma-Zurvan (god of time), to Indra-Adhvagh ("great god", i.e. Ahura Mazda), to Mahadeva In Khotan, the depictions of Vaishravana obtain a special position;28 sometimes he is rendered as a god in heavy armor above the dwarf or a flying genius. Williams (op. cit.) thinks that his imagery was formed in Khotan and in the recent Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism it is said that "Vaisravana may have originated as a Central Asian deity, perhaps in the kingdom of Khotan, where he was believed to have been the progenitor of the royal lineage". 29 The similarities between Bal Samin and Vresman, apart from their names, are rather few (especially given the paucity of sources). In Palmyra Bail Samin is sometimes depicted in full armor, but not always; on the relief from Lyon museum he is in civil dress, unlike armored Bel on the opposite side of the panel. On Panjakent paintings, Vresman is standing next to the most popular goddess, Nanaia. In Palmira he is often associated with Allat (who has some similarities to Nanaia) and on the demotic Aramaic papyrus Amherst (63, XVII 7-19) "The
September 29, 2023 at 3:56 PM
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Nabataean Atargatis Pendant, 1st Century AD #art #history #archaeology #pagan #paganism #arabianpaganism #arabs #nabataea #atargatis #syriangoddess #deasyria #jewelry #goddess
September 28, 2023 at 12:08 AM
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A relief of Iranian deity Mithra from Sia, from a temple dedicated to Ba’alshamin that was frequented by bedouins during their pilgrimage
نقش بارز يصور الإله الإيراني ميثرا من معبد لبعل السماء في سيع في سوريا والذي كان يحج له بدو الحرة
Mithraic relief in Syria Excavated at Si' by the Princeton Expedition
September 24, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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نصب جنائزي لعائلة عربية من قرطبا لبنان من القرن الثاني الميلادي. صورة الزوج منحوتة في الجزء العلوي الأيسر ويدعى عبد اللات.

A funerary monument for an Arab family from Qartaba Lebanon. The image of the husband is carved in the upper left and is named ΑΒΙΔΑΛΛΑΘΟΣ (Abd Allat).
Funerary monument with Hellenistic motifs
September 24, 2023 at 1:50 PM
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إلهة و معها قرن الوفرة من معبد ذو الشرى في البتراء، المسمى اليوم قصر البنت
Goddess with cornucopia from the Temple of Dushara, Petra, today called "Qasr Al-Bint"
September 24, 2023 at 12:35 AM
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العزى-أفروديتي، من القرن الأول أو الثاني ميلادي و عُثر عليها في الأردن
Al'uzza-Aphrodite figurine, 1st or 2nd century AD, Jordan
Al'uzza-Aphrodite figurine, 1st or 2nd century AD, Jordan
September 23, 2023 at 12:57 PM
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الدمية الأثرية المتحرّكة من قرية الفاو
A doll with movable limbs from Qaryat al-Faw
A doll from Qaryat al-Faw with movable limbs shown along two similar dolls from Mesopotamia.
September 21, 2023 at 3:16 PM
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Eros or child Dionysus from Timna, Yemen

This is one of many examples of Hellenistic influences reaching as far as South Arabia
Eros or possibly Dionysus shown naked and holding a bow while riding on the back of a lion
September 21, 2023 at 3:10 PM
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Hellenistic motifs from Petra's treasury

#Nabatea #NabateanKingdom #Arab #Arabia #history #culture #Hellenization #ArabianPaganism #Hellenism #Jordan
Dancing Amazons; Nike (Victory); Isis-Tyche; and Acroteria
September 9, 2023 at 7:28 PM
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Stele of Baalshamin - Zeus Kyrios
Dura-Europos, aka Dura, Syria
c. 31 CE
Source: The Pantheon of Palmyra by Javier Teixidor, 1979
#Baalshamin #Baalsamay #Palmyra #Syria #Zeus #paganism #ArabianPaganism #Arabs #history #culture #religion
September 2, 2023 at 1:13 PM
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Allat or Al-'Uzza from Petra and Astarte from Tyre
#Arabian #Canaanite #Nabatean #polytheism #paganism #pagan #gods #goddesses #deities #religion #history #culture #statues #art #Arabs #Arabia #Lebanon #Jordan
Astarte from Tyre Allat or Al-'Uzza from Petra
August 28, 2023 at 3:33 AM
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لـ عذرإل بن بنصره و حيو رضو
𐪁 𐪒𐪙𐪇𐪑𐪁 𐪈𐪌 𐪈𐪌𐪎𐪇𐪀 𐪅 𐪂𐪚𐪅 𐪇𐪓𐪅
By ʿḏrʾl son of Bnṣrh and prolong life Rḍw

#KRS_1797 #Safitic #OCIANA #Arabic #invocation #epigraphy #pagan #inscription #genealogy #pagan #Jordan #AlMafraq #OldArabic

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August 22, 2023 at 2:33 PM
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التاريخ يوثق قصة شيقة عن قدوم وفود من العرب إلى جبل سمعان في شمال سورية و إعتناقهم المسيحية و تخليهم عن عبادة العزى-أفروديتي.
#تاريخ #وثنية #مسيحية #عرب #سوريا #جبل_سمعان #العزى #أفروديتي
August 21, 2023 at 4:56 PM
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Linguistics suggest that the birthplace of Islam Arabized after the Nabatean annexation of Lihyan kingdom in 24 BC. Similarly, we see the worship of Allat, Al’uzza, Manat and Manaf move south from Syria to Hejaz.
#history #arabic #hijaz #archaeology #linguistics #pagan #gods
August 21, 2023 at 4:55 PM
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Eye stele from the Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra. The holes were probably fitted with gemstones, precious metals or glass.
#art #history #culture #pagan #paganism #ArabianPaganism #nabataea #petra #jordan #GrecoRoman #aluzza #isis
August 21, 2023 at 12:46 PM
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#Al'uzza was worshipped by the #Nabataeans in #Elusa in #Palestine before the city converted en masse to #Christianity in the 4th century it was an important #religious center that hosted an annual festival, with a temple dedicated to the worship of Al'uzza (#Venus)
August 21, 2023 at 4:23 AM
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لـ طلق بن جيز بن شهيت بن سحد هـ دميت و هـ رضو فلطه من شنء
𐪁 𐪗𐪁𐪄 𐪈𐪌 𐪔𐪚𐪘 𐪈𐪌 𐪆𐪀𐪚𐪉 𐪈𐪌 𐪊𐪂𐪕 𐪀 𐪕𐪃𐪚𐪉 𐪅 𐪀 𐪇𐪓𐪅 𐪐𐪁𐪗𐪀 𐪃𐪌 𐪆𐪌𐪑
#Safaitic #OCIANA #C_1548 #Arab #pagan #invocation #Radw #Syria #RifDimashq #OldArabic
OCIANA - #0004753 (ox.ac.uk)
Transliteration l ṭlq bn gyz bn s²h{y}t bn s¹ḥ{d} h- dmyt w h rḍw flṭ -h m- s²n{ʾ} Translation By Ṭlq son of Gyz son of {S²hyt} son of {S¹ḥd} is the drawing, and O Rḍw deliver him from enemies.
August 21, 2023 at 2:23 AM
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بالرمادي أماكن تواجد #العرب حسب #معرفة #الإغريق قبل غزو بومبيوس الكبير لـ #سوريا (63 قبل الميلاد)
#تاريخ #تراث #عرب #خريطة #الرها #الاحواز #الجزيرة_الفراتية #نجد #الحجاز #الشام #سيناء #النقب #الجولان #اليمن #مصر #الخليج_العربي #عربي #حضارة #خرائط
Greek knowledge of Arabians before Pompey's conquest of Syria (63 BC). Source: https://www.academia.edu/4593009/Arabians_Arabias_and_the_Greeks_Contact_and_Perceptions
August 21, 2023 at 1:53 AM