Turmasgade

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Altar with consecration at Turmasgade, from Caesarea Maritima

Turmasgade is a little-known god known from about 10 inscriptions from the Roman Empire. The name Turmasgade is Aramaic and means mountain of worship or mountain of sanctuary . Tur means mountain; msgd - worship or sanctuary. This may indicate that Turmasgade was a holy mountain, but also a deity. In some inscriptions he is identified with Zeus , but in other inscriptions no such identification is proven. It has been suggested that the god came from the commagene . Two donors of consecrations to God have ties to this region. So far there are only nine (maybe ten) certain proofs of the god, most of which come from the east of the Roman Empire. But one inscription comes from Trier , another from Rome . A sanctuary of God has been excavated in Dura Europos .

literature

  • Michael Blömer: A New Altar for the God Turmasgade from Dülük Baba Tepesi , in Engelbert Winter (editor) From the Iron Age sanctuary to the Christian monastery. New research on the Dülük Baba Tepesi , Bonn 2017 ISBN 978-3-7749-4079-6 , pp. 99–121