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.
The origin of this 'god' is obscure.
It may have arisen from a cult identifying the divine and royal aspect of the
satrap
A satrap () was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.
The satrap served as viceroy to the king, though with consid ...
's power, in a similar fashion to many deified personifications in Roman paganism, i.e. the goddess
Pietas.
References
West Semitic gods
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