Pervasive Aniconism: A Cognitive Approach to Elagabal’s Sacred Stone of Emesa

Elagabal, the local god of Emesa in Syria, was worshipped in the form of an aniconic stone. Non-figural aniconic cult objects pervade the historical record. Nevertheless, both ancient and modern attitudes toward aniconic cult objects tends to misunderstand and/or denigrate them as primitive or under...

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Main Author: Hodge, Alex
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77338/