Jupiter Dolichenus

Jupiter Dolichenus was from the last third of the 1st century a soldier god who was especially venerated in the Roman army. It had its origins in the city Doliche ( Dolike ), where there has long been an important place of worship of Baal was.

Doliche situated about ten kilometers from the city of Gaziantep removed in the village Dülük in the Commagene, in the province of Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey on the upper Euphrates.

The cult of Jupiter Dolichenus ' goes on the northern Mesopotamian weather god Hadad, Babylonian Adad, back, who was standing on a bull represented with double ax and thunderbolt.

After the conquest of the city Doliche by the Romans in the last third of the 1st century and their integration into the province of Syria, the cult was transferred to the god Jupiter and quickly spread as " soldiers God " throughout the Roman Empire.

After the destruction of the main sanctuary in Doliche by the Sassanid king Shapur I. middle of the 3rd century, the cult went under.