"What should have been part of the rampart mound near to the north gate of the fort has turned out to be an amazing religious shrine," said archaeologist Andrew Birley. tags roman altar pagan influence Carlisle NewcastleRomans called this god Jupiter Dolichenus, but it was originally an ancient weather god, known to the Semitic peoples of the Middle East as Hadad and to the Hittites as Teshab. picked by drogue 4 months ago |
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