entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_ROM_EASTERN_CULTS,PER_ROM_IMPERIAL,high,"NEW HUB (collective). Grouping for the Near-Eastern mystery and solar deities that entered the Roman empire in Roman civic/military dress during the imperial period (1st-4th c. CE): Jupiter Dolichenus, the Heliopolitan triad, Dea Syria, Dea Caelestis, and Sol Invictus Elagabal. Not a single attested deity but an analytic cult-cluster following Beard/North/Price's treatment of the 'oriental cults'; created to wire these interpretatio-heavy figures together.",SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,reviewed