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Visual depiction of Janus

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Janus

Roman god of beginnings


depicted with two faces looking forward and back, holding a staff and key, standing in a grand ceremonial archway

Organization
Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period
c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location
Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.