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Visual depiction of Malakbel

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Vol. II · Polytheism · sun

Malakbel

Palmyrene sun god


a radiant solar deity of the Syrian desert city of Palmyra, his cult spreading along the caravan routes between Rome and Persia

Organization
Mixed Bronze/Iron-Age pantheons
Time period
varies
Location
varies
Archetype
sun

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Mixed Pantheons (set 4) has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.