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Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • The Bacchus temple is one of the best preserved Roman temples.
    It survived without serious damage several earthquakes, religious changes from paganism to Christianity and Islam as well as its transformation into a dungeon during the medieval period.
    Its rich Corinthian ornaments suggest a date in the early 2nd c. AD.
    Unlike the Jupiter temple, The Bacchus temple was completely finished.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • The smaller temple of the holly precinct Baalbek was maybe dedicated to Bacchus, the wine God!
    There are no inscriptions to confirm the identity of the worshipped deity or to provide a clue as to the date of the building.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • Those Ruins are located out side the main temple!
    they are in the center of the city of Baalbek!
    you can't enter.
    you can only see it from a close distance!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • This Goddess is one of the great ancient evidence of that period!
    Actually Goddess was more than Gods in the Middle East mythologies and religions!
    They found that life is a gift from a woman!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • A great Stone with the story of how ancient Brave Roman hunters were doing in their chases of the beasts!
    also next to it a draw of a Roman Ritual in the Temple!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • The ante-cella is ornamented with two rows of niches inside which statues once stood.
    Another staircase leads up to the cella, which was separated from the ante-cella by a canopy-like structure because common visitors of the temple were not allowed to look inside the holy of Holies.
    On the right side of the cella, there is a crypt where cult vessels were probably stored.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • Lion head is the Symbol of power and strength!
    it was a great decoration on the Roman temple.
    Earthquake destroyed a part of it but fortunately the head was in a good case!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • A monumental staircase leads to the stone podium on which both the temple and the colonnaded portico that surrounds its stand.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • This wall Picture was added in the Byzantine period.
    the Christian touch is noticed on the style of drawing the picture!

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    Off The Beaten Path: Baalbek
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    • This decoration is added in the Islamic period!
    Muslims don't draw faces, humans, and Animals!
    just some forms or plants!

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