Mysterious Roman God Baffles Experts

livescience.com ^ | | November 25, 2014 10:05am ET | Tia Ghose, Staff Writer

[BenLurkin]

sculpture of a mysterious, never-before-seen Roman deity has been unearthed in an ancient temple in Turkey.

The 1st century B.C. relief, of an enigmatic bearded god rising up out of a flower or plant, was discovered at the site of a Roman temple near the Syrian border. The ancient relief was discovered in a supporting wall of a medieval Christian monastery.

"It's clearly a god, but at the moment it's difficult to say who exactly it is," said Michael Blömer, an archaeologist at the University of Muenster in Germany, who is excavating the site. "There are some elements reminiscent of ancient Near Eastern gods, as well, so it might be some very old god from before the Romans."

[BenLurkin]

Looks Mesopotamian to me: http://www.livescience.com/48881-photos-unknown-roman-god.html

[BigEdLB]

an enigmatic bearded god rising up out of a flower or plant...

Name? HORTICULTURIS?

[Cowboy Bob]

Maybe it was a guy being eaten by a plant?

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Name? HORTICULTURIS?

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can’t make her think.

[mikrofon]

an enigmatic bearded god rising up out of a flower or plant

Gayus Homœroticus

[knarf]

[Straight Vermonter]

The beard has the “curly” quality that you see in Mesopotamian carvings.

[Flag_This]

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate."

[PGR88]

I can just imagine some ancient Romans having a laugh - let’s put your drunken brother-in-law’s image on the wall!! People will think he’s some kind of local god!

[BenLurkin]

Excellent!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[BenLurkin]

Is that picture behind him depict the hole from which he crawled?

[tnlibertarian]

This him?

[Sirius Lee]

"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be.

Bob Dobbs?

[Kenny Bunk]

Gayus Homœroticus

Patron god of floral arrangers and decorators in Roman Flower Shoppes. Good catch.

[dagogo redux]

That’s my cousin Bob. We’ve been wondering where he went after he stopped his meds.

[Flag_This]

Mockers will know what it is to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you.

[Darksheare]

NOT my fault.
Coffeecus Buzzpermanantus was a joke!

[PIF]