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Resheph-Apollo temple

temple, Cyprus
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The Resheph-Apollo temple was located in ancient Idalium, Cyprus. Idalium was a pre-Greek city that eventually came under the influence of the Phoenician city of Citium. It became a center for the worship of Aphrodite and the Greco-Phoenician deity Resheph-Apollo. Resheph was an ancient West Semitic god associated with plague and the underworld, but also with war, well-being, plenty, and fertility. He was sometimes considered equivalent to the Babylonian god Nergal and was represented as a warrior god. A terracotta model believed to depict the Resheph-Apollo temple was discovered at Idalium.12

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