Satrapes

{{Short description|A god in the Palmyrene pantheon}}

Satrapes was a god in the Palmyrene pantheon, the name occurring in Syrian inscriptions from Palmyra and the Hauran. Pausanias (vi.25, 26) mentions 'Satrapes' as the name of a god who had a statue and a cult in Elis and is identified with Korybas.{{cite book|title=The description of Greece, by Pausanias|volume=2|year=1824|page=143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gBkIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143|last1=Traveller|first1=Pausanias, the|author-mask=Pausanias (the Traveller)|translator-last=Taylor|translator-first=T.|translator-link=Thomas Taylor (neoplatonist)}}{{1911|wstitle=Satrap|volume=24|page=230|inline=1}}

The origin of this 'god' is obscure. It may have arisen from a cult identifying the divine and royal aspect of the satrap's power, in a similar fashion to many deified personifications in Roman paganism, i.e. the goddess Pietas.