Julius Agrippa was a Syrian nobleman from the

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who lived in the 2nd century. Agrippa was an Emesene nobleman who was a direct descendant of the Emesene Roman Priest-Client King Sohaemus of Emesa, also known as Gaius Julius Sohaemus. He was the brother of a Julius and the paternal uncle of

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, the Emesene High Priest of El-Gebal. El-Gebal is the Aramaic name for the Syrian Sun God. Agrippa served as a Primipilaris, a former leading

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. Agrippa was a man of some wealth as he owned an estate. When Agrippa died perhaps sometime before the late 180s, his name appears to be registered at the time of the

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Jurist

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. Agrippa's estate was left to the Roman Empress

Julia Domna Julia Domna (; – 217 AD) was Roman empress from 193 to 211 as the wife of Emperor Septimius Severus. She was the first empress of the Severan dynasty. Domna was born in Emesa (present-day Homs) in Roman Syria to an Arab family of priests ...

, as he was the paternal great-uncle to Domna and her elder sister

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. Agrippa is not to be confused with the powerful Lucius Julius Gainius Fabius Agrippa of

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.Birley, ''Septimius Severus: The African Emperor'', p.223

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*A.R. Birley, Septimius Severus: The African Emperor, Routledge, 2002 *B. Levick, Julia Domna: Syrian Empress, Routledge, 2007 {{DEFAULTSORT:Julius Agrippa People from Homs Emesene dynasty

Agrippa Agrippa may refer to: People Antiquity * Agrippa (mythology), semi-mythological king of Alba Longa * Agrippa (astronomer), Greek astronomer from the late 1st century * Agrippa the Skeptic, Skeptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century * Ag ...

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