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Surroundings:

QanaWat NympheumCisternAlit templeFortressSleimArch of St. SergiusSuweida, Lintel with  eagleSuweida, Judgment of Paris

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Qanawāt
  • geo:32.75737,36.613823
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 1x / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34905

Annotations

Ancient Temple in southern Syria. The town of Qanawat, near modern Suweida had a number of temples. This was a temple to the God Helios, but previously served as the temple of Baal-Schamin. Itwas built in the second century AD.

See:

  1. Clarence Ward, The Temple of Helios (?) at Ḳanawât, American Journal of ArchaeologyVol. 11, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1907), pp. 387-395: JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/496920. Accessed 17 Oct. 2020.

Relevant museums

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Canatha [Kanatha]

Qanawat/Kanawat. Fourth century church.

Canatha

OmnesViae import TPPlace482

Theatre Chanata

Theatre Chanata


This object was added by Ludwinski on 2017-01-29. Last update by Elżbieta on 2020-10-17. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/34905 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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