The Severan Dynasty: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Roman Empire’s Rulers Before Rome’s Imperial Crisis by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2019-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

A depiction of his entrance into Rome

By all accounts, Elagabalus was deeply devoted to the worship of the Sun God and rose each day at dawn to sacrifice cattle and sheep at the temple he had built to honor his preferred deity. Senators were expected to attend these sacrifices and watch as “the entrails of the sacrificial victims and spices were carried in golden bowls, not on the heads of household servants or lower class people but by military prefects and important officials wearing long tunics in the Phoenician style down to their feet, with long sleeves and a single purple stripe in the middle.”[28]

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