1. Map of Roman Syria. Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
2. Relief depicting Arsu and Elagabal. J. Starcky, ‘Stèle d’Elahagabal’, 49 (1975–76) pp. 503–20.
3. Bust of Elagabalus, type 1. Ny Carlsberg Glypotek, no IN 2073. Picture taken by Ole Haupt.
4. Bust of Elagabalus, type 2. Musei Capitolini, Rome. Picture taken by Ellen Kraft.
5. Coin showing the black stone in a quadriga on the reverse. RIC 196a (aureus), Numismatische Bilddatenbank Eichstätt: www.ifaust.de/nbe.
6. Coin showing Elagabalus as high priest and the black stone in a quadriga, frontal (antoninianus), not in RIC. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bundesslg. von Münzen, no 43082.
7. Coin showing the black stone in a quadriga on the reverse. RIC 61 (aureus,) Numismatische Bilddatenbank Eichstätt: www.ifaust.de/nbe.
8. Coin showing Elagabalus as ‘sacerdos amplissimus’ on the reverse. RIC 46 (denarius), Compagnie Générale de Bourse: www.cgb.fr.
9. Coin showing Elagabalus as ‘sacerdos amplissimus’ on the reverse. RIC 88 (denarius), Compagnie Générale de Bourse: www.cgb.fr.
10. Coin showing a bearded Elagabalus on the obverse. RIC 68b (aureus), Numismatische Bilddatenbank Eichstätt: www.ifaust.de/nbe.
11. Reconstruction of the Elagabal temple on the Palatine, seen from above. Y. Thébert et al., ‘Il santuario di Elagabalus’, p. 84.
12. Reconstruction of the Elagabal temple on the Palatine, drawing. Y. Thébert et al., ‘Il santuario di Elagabalus’, p. 85.
13. Capital with the betyl of Elagabal, flanked by two female deities. F, Studniczka, ‘Ein Pfeilercapitell’, P1. XII.
14. Simeon Solomon, Heliogabalus, High Priest of the Sun (1866). Private collection.
15. Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888). Private collection.
16. Gustav-Adolf Mossa, Lui (1906). Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice.
17. An Italian designer-clothing store called Eliogabalo. Appropiately for an emperor who worshipped the sun, there is a tanning salon above.