Explore: Jupiter Heliopolitanus (cult)

in the great temple of Baalbek, in modern-day Lebanon. The cult of Jupiter Heliopolitanus evolved from the ancient Canaanite religion, particularly the

same foundation. It was the biggest temple dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maxiums Heliopolitanus in all the Roman Empire. The columns were 19.9 meters high

epithets of Jupiter indicate the importance and variety of the god's functions in ancient Roman religion. Jupiter's most ancient attested forms of cult are those

underground channels, as well as some inscriptions dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus, Agatis, and the nymphae furrinae. However, these findings

is a second century AD gilded bronze sculptural group of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus, a syncretic supreme deity worshipped in the Great Temple

In early modern scholarship, a cult to a supposed Heliopolitan Triad of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, Venus and Mercury (or Dionysus) was thought to have originated

the Artemis of Claros, the Kore of Sardis, Zeus Labraundeus, and Jupiter Heliopolitanus of Baalbek. Lisa Brody suggests the refounding of Artemisias as

time, the complex housed three temples on Tell Baalbek: one to Jupiter Heliopolitanus (Baʿal), one to Venus Heliopolitana (Ashtart), and a third to Bacchus

Deutung und Funktion des sogenannten Bacchus-Tempels im Heiligtum des Jupiter Heliopolitanus in Baalbek". Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts

discovered which refer to a Fortuna sanctuary and a nymphaeum. The cult of Jupiter Heliopolitanus from Heliopolis (Baalbek), which was relatively uncommon in