Emesene

This association may be explained by the kinship between the Emesene gods and those of Baalbek.

The Emesene guardsman's blade sparked off the marble.

But the names were presumably popular Emesene ones and may not necessarily refer to the royal family, despite the names' close associations with both the ruling dynasty and the Emesene Sun cult.

And Aurelius Antoninus, the Emesene, was he not slaughtered together with his mother?

But though the fiscus was put in charge of an Emesene of low character, the confiscations which Dio complains of the increased exaction of crown gold", and the general disorder into which the imperial finances fell may have been due less to the rapacity or incompetence of officials than to the foolish liberality by which the Emperor sought to win popular applause.

A prominent Emesene, who may well have been a kinsman of Julia, was the victim, one Julius Alexander.

Here Remy notes that four kings received ornamenta, the three here mentioned and Sohaemus of Emesene.

Yet the question remains: how typical of conditions in Mount Lebanon and the Emesene was Abraames' experience?

All 713 inscriptions from the region of Emesene are in Greek, including funerary monuments.