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Julius Bassianus (?-towards 217) was an Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
, who lived in the second and third century AD. Bassianus was a high priest for the Temple of the Sun, which was adored in a shape of a black stone. The Aramaean Sun God in Aramaic is El-Gabal. Bassianus was a member of the Royal Family of Emesa
Royal Family of Emesa

The Royal Family of Emesa was a native Syrian Arab dynasty of Priest Kings in Emesa . There is a possibility that members of the Royal Family may have some ancestry from the local Greek population in Syria....
 (modern Homs
Homs

Hims Hims did not emerge into the light of history until the 1st century BCE at the time of Seleucids. It later became the capital of a kingdom ruled by the Royal Family of Emesa who gave the city its name....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
). The Royal Family was apart of the local Syrian Aramaean aristocracy and was a client kingdom of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
.






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Julius Bassianus (?-towards 217) was an Arab
Arab

An Arab is a person who Identity as such on linguistic or cultural grounds. The plural form, Arabs , refers to the Ethnocultural group at large....
, who lived in the second and third century AD. Bassianus was a high priest for the Temple of the Sun, which was adored in a shape of a black stone. The Aramaean Sun God in Aramaic is El-Gabal. Bassianus was a member of the Royal Family of Emesa
Royal Family of Emesa

The Royal Family of Emesa was a native Syrian Arab dynasty of Priest Kings in Emesa . There is a possibility that members of the Royal Family may have some ancestry from the local Greek population in Syria....
 (modern Homs
Homs

Hims Hims did not emerge into the light of history until the 1st century BCE at the time of Seleucids. It later became the capital of a kingdom ruled by the Royal Family of Emesa who gave the city its name....
, Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
). The Royal Family was apart of the local Syrian Aramaean aristocracy and was a client kingdom of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. The beginning of his priesthood is unknown but by 187, he was a high priest
High priest

The term "high priest" may refer to an individual who holds the office of monarch-priest, or may refer to the head of a religious caste.* In ancient Egypt, a high priest was the chief priest of any of the many gods revered by the Egyptians....
 at Emesa.

Future emperor Lucius Septimius Severus
Septimius Severus

Lucius Septimius Severus was a Roman Empire general, and Roman Emperor from April 14 193 to 211. He was born in what is now the Libyan part of Rome's historic Africa Province, making him the first emperor to be born in the Roman province of Africa Province....
 had visited Emesa, based on a promising horoscope that he would find his future wife in Syria. Bassianus introduced Severus to his two daughters. Bassianus' wife is unknown. His elder daughter Julia Maesa
Julia Maesa

Julia Maesa was a Ancient Rome citizenShahid, Irfan . Rome and The Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs and daughter of Julius Bassianus, priest of the sun god Heliogabalus , the patron god of Emesa in the Roman province of Syria , and grandmother of both the Roman emperors Elagabalus and Alexander...
 was married to a Syrian noble Julius Avitus
Julius Avitus

Julius Avitus or his full name Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus, was a Syrian noble that lived in the 2nd century and 3rd century. He originally came from Emesa ....
 and they had two daughters Julia Soaemias
Julia Soaemias

Julia Soaemias Bassiana was the mother of Roman Emperor Elagabalus and ruled over the Roman Empire during the minority of her son's rule.Julia was the daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Women in Rome of Syrian origin, and Syrian noble Julius Avitus....
 and Julia Avita Mamaea
Julia Avita Mamaea

Julia Avita Mamaea was the second daughter of Julia Maesa, a powerful Women in Rome of Syrian Arab origin and Syrian noble Julius Avitus. She was a niece of empress Julia Domna and Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and sister of Julia Soaemias....
. His younger daughter Julia Domna
Julia Domna

Julia Domna was a member of the Severan dynasty of the Roman Empire. Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus and mother of Emperors Publius Septimius Geta and Caracalla, Julia was among the most important women ever to exercise power behind the throne in the Roman Empire....
 was not married.

Severus and Domna, married not so long after. Domna bore Severus two sons, Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla
Caracalla

Caracalla , born Lucius Septimius Bassianus and later called Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus, was the eldest son of Septimius Severus and Roman Emperor from 211 – 217....
, 4 April 186-8 April 217) and Publius Septimius Geta
Publius Septimius Geta

Publius Septimius Geta , was a Roman Emperor co-ruling with his father Septimius Severus and his older brother Caracalla from 209 to his death....
 (27 May 189-19 December 211). Caracalla and Geta would became future Roman Emperors and heirs to their father.

Julia Maesa prevailed upon her grandson, the emperor Elagabalus
Elagabalus

Elagabalus , also known as Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, was a Roman Emperor of the Severan dynasty who reigned from 218 to 222....
 to adopt another grandson, Julia Avita Mamaea son, who took the name Alexander Severus
Alexander Severus

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, commonly called Alexander Severus, was the last Roman Emperors of the Severan dynasty, having succeeded, as heir apparent, his despised cousin, the eighteen year old Elagabalus who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards—and as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into...
 and eventually became emperor.

Bassianus could be a possible descendant of Princess Drusilla of Mauretania
Drusilla of Mauretania (born 38)

Drusilla of Mauretania was a princess of Mauretania, the daughter and only child of king Ptolemy of Mauretania and queen Julia Urania....
 and possible ancestor to Syrian Queen Zenobia
Zenobia

Zenobia was a Roman Syrian queen who lived in the 3rd century. She was a Queen regnant of the Palmyrene Empire and the second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus....
 of Palmyra
Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
.

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