Pervasive Aniconism: A Cognitive Approach to Elagabal’s Sacred
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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
Subjects:	Elagabal Emesa Aniconism Cognitive Cult Object Litholatry
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/77338/

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