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Qalaat Faqra

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plinth, a few blocks belonging to the upper parts of the building allow its elevation to be restored. On the upper course of the plinth rest two steps, where stands the floor decorated with pilasters topped with capitals with brackets. The pilasters support a Doric entablature, crowned by a cornice adorned with a torus and an Egyptian throat. A loggia opens onto the eastern facade, directly above the main entrance. A system of narrow corridors and sideways spiral staircases allows circulation inside the building and ends in a small rectangular room in the central core of the matched masonry block.
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To the east, the facade of the sanctuary is adorned with engaged pilasters and bordered by a decastyle portico about 6 m deep. This portico was recently restored. Clearing the area east of the enclosure revealed a limestone altar-tower measuring approximately 4.30 m by 4.10 m, devoid of moldings at the base and crowned with an Egyptian gorge.
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Court in front of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek.The platform itself shows traces of pillars and the pedestals of two statues, so we may assume that there was a second storey: a kind of loggia, with a ceiling that we can no longer reconstruct. The statues must have represented the emperor Claudius and Beelgalasus (a supreme god)
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The temple is aligned with the median axis of the peribolus. It rests on a solid foundation and not on a real podium. It was a hexastyle prostyle temple of the Corinthian order, about 40 m. long and 18 m. wide, with a pronaos and a long cella at the bottom of which rose the platform of an adyton. The
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Towards the west, it only continues for about 30m to the north and 15m to the south, before hitting the rocks. In the north, these have been roughly cut to give an approximately regular shape to the temenos. To the west and south, however, they are in the rough, so the temple clings to the rock face.
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The monument is essential a large platform (a "high place of worship"), where large animals could be sacrificed. This means that the platform had to be accessible, and there are indeed stairs inside the large stone cube. More famous examples of this type of structure are the altar-towers in the Great
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It rests on a cubic plinth of 15.67 m on each side where two openings have been made: halfway up, perpendicular to the eastern side of the Claudius tower, an external staircase of eighteen steps leads to the main door, while another, smaller door is at ground level in the southeast corner. Above the
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Faqra - or, to use its full name: Qalaat Faqra, "Castle Faqra" - is situated along one of the roads from the coast to Baalbek, high up the western slopes of the Lebanon range. On a hill in a landscape full of bizarre rocks, there are four altars, one of them rebuilt during the reign of the emperor
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porticos on three sides, precedes the upper terrace where the temple rises, beyond a flight of 'staircase covering the entire width of the sanctuary. The remains of a monumental sandstone and limestone altar are preserved in the courtyard, slightly offset to the south from the median axis of the
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The unusual appearance of the building has sometimes led to the tower being considered sometimes as a tomb, sometimes as a monumental "altar" (that is the most common opinion of archaeologists like Yasmine), sometimes as a lookout post coupled with an honorary monument.
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The sanctuary is nestled in the dolomitic limestone formations, between the tower sector to the north and that of the small temple to the south. Its peribolus wall delimits an enclosure approximately 75 m long and 35 m wide, with the long sides to the north and south.
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The remains of an ancient settlement (Roman and perhaps proto-Byzantine) are visible near the tower and between the small temple and the large sanctuary. The little Roman settlement was probably made mainly by Roman veterans of the two legions settled by
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A large door fitted in the middle of the facade of the peribola gives access to the Sanctuary. The interior space of the temenos is divided into two parts: a paved courtyard, roughly square and bordered by
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According to some archaeologists, like Yassmine and Alioquot, the two most important archaeological areas of Qalaat Faqra are the "Claudius Tower" and the "Great Sanctuary":
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walls of the building are built in double apparatus, mainly with blocks cut in the yellow ocher sandstone, while the prostyle consists of blocks of gray limestone.
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Claudius and therefore named "tower of Claudius". You can also find a "large altar", a nicely restored "small altar", and the remains of a "destroyed altar"
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This archaeological sdtructure has an inscription with dedication to Roman emperor Claudius, who rebuilt it: that's the reason of its name.
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with its Greek & Latin inscriptions that state that the building, which at one time was topped with a pyramid-shaped roof like
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A bit lower on a slope, to the south of actual Faqra, are the remains of two ancient temples: the largest of these is dedicated to
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of the area around Berytus, that was done by the Romans in the first and second centuries in order to strengthen their
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Chapter 3: Villages et Sanctuaries (p. 71-126). Institut français du Proche-Orient. Beirut, 2009 (
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and consists of columns, altars tombs and temples. They are divided into three sectors: that of the
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Julie Yasmine date the construction of the Sanctuary in the middle of the 1st century, under
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Aliquot Julien. "LA VIE RELIGIEUSE AU LIBAN SOUS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN": Qalaat Faqra. p. 128 (
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Taylor, George. "The Roman Temples of Lebanon". Dar el Mashreq Publishers. Beyrut, 1971
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In Late Antiquity, the last-mentioned shrine was partly dismantled, and a Byzantine
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Doyle, Paul. Lebanon, Bradt Travel Guide, 1st edition (March 1, 2012), page 195.
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Remaniement de temples d’époque romaine; les cas de Niha et de Faqra
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can be dated to the second half of the first century, under emperor
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and the monumental altars, on the hill to the north; that of the
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Images and Monuments of Near Eastern Dynasts, 100 BC - AD 100
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The ruins are the most extensive Roman archeological site in
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at an altitude of 1500 m (and exactly half-way between
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Qalaat Faqra is located in Lebanon
34°00′06″N 35°48′18″E / 34.001667°N 35.805°E / 34.001667; 35.805
Kfardebian
Roman
Byzantine
Faqra
Mount Sannine
Berytus
Heliopolis
Roman Phoenicia
UNESCO
Nahr al-Kalb
Mount Lebanon
Augustus
Berytus
fifth Macedonian
third Gallic
Romanization
Roman empire
Mediterranean Sea
Adonis
Atargatis
Claudius
Kamouh el Hermel
Claudius
Adonis
Zeus Beelgalasos
sanctuary
Atargatis

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