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south still carry their entablature (fig. 424)1. The nads itself, except
for sundry patches of a cement-paving, has entirely disappeared.
And its foundation-walls are so imperfectly preserved that at present

Fig. 425. Fig. 426. Fig. 427.

it has not been found possible to reconstruct the complete ground-
plan with certainty. It is, however, clear that the temple was
pseudodipteral, i.e. that in lieu of an inner row of columns it had

Fig. 428.

a very broad pteron or ambulatory. The whole building is shown
in perspective on coins of Septimius Severus, his wife Iulia Domna,
Caracalla, Philippus Senior, and Otacilia (figs. 4252, 426s, 427*). It

1 O. Puchstein & T. von Liipke op. cit. pi. 17. In the background appears the snow-
capped range of Libanos; in the foreground, the lowest course of the temple-terrace—
gigantic blocks 4-i2m high, 3*i2m thick, and 9'50m long.

2 Brit. Mus. Cat. Coins Galatia, etc. pp. lxxvii, 290 pi. 36, 2 Septimius Severus, with
legend IOMH | COLHEL, Iovi Optimo Maximo Heliopolitano \ Coloniae Heliopoleos.
Ib. p. 291 Iulia Domna, 293 Philippus Senior, with the same legend.

3 F. De Saulcy Numismatique de la terre sainte Paris 1874 p. 8 f. pi. 1, 3 Septimius
Severus, p. 9 Iulia Domna, p. 10 Caracalla, p. 14 Otacilia, all with the same legend.

4 R. Dussaud Notes de mythologie syrienne Paris 1905 p. 94 f. fig. 23.

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