Fourzol (Ferzol) Temple

I have not yet found this one. George Taylor's description¹ has it "on the outskirts of Fourzol village, on the right" presumably going up the hill. There is little to see though there are broken remains of a dedicatory inscription in Latin from the architrave. Aliquot records the podium as being partially visible, though mostly under an asphalted road².

Further up the path which climbs the hill, at a point known as Fourzol Habis, there are "hermit caves" at least one of which looks very like a rock carved temple. Another, further north, along the scarp of the hill is similar. A bit further south, there is a rock carving, possibly Christian. This whole area clearly needs further investigation.

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1. ↑George Taylor (1967). The Roman Temples of Lebanon. Beirut : Dar el Mashreq Publishers. p. 125 and plate 4.
2. ↑Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Békaa-Sud. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, p. 306, section 61.