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| | Saudi Aramco World : Throne Room of The Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The stone bodies were built like massive architecture, with no implications of humanity or life in their formal, four-square fists-on-thighs positions; but the heads, in sharpest contrast, were not only alive but almost portrait-like, the faces expressing god-like power, serenity and concern. |
 | | Indeed, these were the gods, seated here in their common throne room, each named not with one name but with two or three, Greek as well as Persian, in accordance with the syncretistic principle of King Antiochus' new religion. |
 | | Flanked left and right by Commagene's eagle and lion were Apollo and Mithra in one godhead, Fortuna and the Persian fertility goddess and the personification of Commagene in one, the god-king Antiochus himself, Zeus/Oromasdes, and Hercules/ Ares/Artagnes in his lion skin and carrying a club. |
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