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Location

  • Lebanon, Baalbek
  • geo:34.002758,36.208603

Period or year

  • not yet provided

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Baalbek, Temple of Mercury

data access 17889

Aliquot, who provides full details, gives this as temple E1.  Livius2 provides a short description and a good photograph which can be compared with the one published in Aliquot. Aliquot also publishes a picture of the coin of Philip the Arab mentioned by Livius.

NB: Cheikh Abdallah hill on which this temple and its staircase are located is very close to a Lebanese army barracks. In these troubled times, the visitor is strongly advised to be cautious about taking photographs, and to ask permission if in doubt.

References

  1. ↑ Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Békaa-Nord. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, p. 295
  2. ↑ Livius (2016). Baalbek: temple of Mercury

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2013-12-29) , last updated by Jona Lendering (2016-07-14), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/17889
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Lendering, J. (2016) Baalbek, Temple of Mercury. Vici.org: archaeological atlas of antiquity. https://vici.org/vici/17889, accessed 2026-11-15.