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The Temple of Jupiter is a colossal Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon. It is the largest of the Roman world after the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome . It is unknown who commissioned or designed the temple, nor exactly when it was constructed.
The entrance to the Temple of Bacchus in the 1870s Corinthian capitals ornamenting the columns of the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek. The temple is 66 m long, 35 m wide and 31 m high, making it only slightly smaller than the Temple of Jupiter. [5] The podium on which the temple sits is on an East-West axis.
The Tell Baalbek temple complex, fortified as the town's citadel during the Middle Ages, [110] was constructed from local stone, mostly white granite and a rough white marble. [62] Over the years, it has suffered from the region's numerous earthquakes, the iconoclasm of Christian and Muslim lords, [ 70 ] and the reuse of the temples' stone for ...
The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek. The location of the megalithic ...
A car park close to Baalbek's Unesco-designated Roman ruins was hit in an Israeli air strike [Getty Images] ... It was built on the site of an ancient Philistine temple before being converted into ...
Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek Roman temple of Qsarnaba, near Zahle, Lebanon The column of Iaat in the Beqaa valley, probably a Roman shrine. In the first century the Temples started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous ""Monoliths".
In the first century the worldwide famous temples in the area of Heliopolis (actual Baalbek) started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous "Monoliths". The Temple of Jupiter in Heliopolis (in a complex area called even Sanctuary of Heliopolitan Zeus) was the biggest pagan temple in the classical world.
Western Stone, Temple Mount Block Jerusalem, Israel [33] Herod, King of Judea during the Second Temple period Weight is disputed; a 2006 analysis estimated the depth of this stone at only 1.8–2.5 m, for a weight of 250–300 t. [32] Weight formerly said to be 550 to 600 t. [34] [35] 230 t [36] Mausoleum of Theodoric: Roof slab Ravenna, Italy