Lorena's paper at the congress "Dyades, triades et autres configurations divines récurrentes dans le monde romain".

Recently our colleague Lorena participated in the congress "Dyades, triades et autres configurations divines récurrentes dans le monde romain", held in the UCLouvain University. Her paper was titled: "Jupiter Dolichenus and his paredra: Juno Dolichena?"

Abstract: Dolichenus is a regional baal, a deity worshiped in Doliche since late bronze age. His sanctuary on the top of Dülük Baba Tepesi gained prominence in Roman imperial times as the epicentre of the cult to Jupiter Optimus Maximus Dolichenus. He acquired popularity and evolved from that North Syrian origin, spreading to different parts of the Roman Empire and integrating into the Roman system at one point between the end of the 1st century and the early 2nd CE. With the deity we see sometimes another principal divinity, a goddess with Greaco-Roman attire that is usually identifed with Juno. Few is known about this goddess Dolcihena and her role in the Roman cult of Dolichenus. This paper will try to shed some light on her figure, her cult position in relation to Dolichenus and their process of transformation into the Roman imperial world.