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Location:

  • Lebanon, El Bardé
  • geo:34.602695,36.251617
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=27649

Annotations

South east facing peripteral temple near the spring Ain Jallouk, unusually built of basalt. Altar to Nemesis with a relief carving of a wheel with an inscription dating one wall to 160 A.D. and others dating up to Feb. 262 A.D.1 2 3 4

References

  1. George Taylor (1967), The Roman Temples of Lebanon. Beirut : Dar el Mashreq Publishers. p. 15, plates 114-116
  2. Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie Religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire Romain: LIban-Nord. Beyrouth: Presses de l’Ifpo. p. 233-235.
  3. Lebanon.com Tourism (2001). Beit Jallouk & Menjez. Confusing directions but useful extra info. esp. on Menjez, a little to the north.
  4. Ministry of Tourism (2011). Destination Lebanon: Explore / District of Akkar.


Nearby

Felicium (3 km)

Felicium

Burj Tybo (3 km)

Burj Tybo

Mar Challita (6 km)

Mar Challita


This object was added by Brian Prescott-Decie on 2016-06-18. Last update by Brian Prescott-Decie on 2016-06-21. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/27649 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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