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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0502
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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
1
1
Mm
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This temple fronted toward the
east on the great quadrangular court.
Its western wall stood on the three
great stones, and its northern on a
splendid wall of drafted masonry of
thirteen courses, about forty-eight
feet in height. The great peristyle
was two hundred and ninety feet in
length by one hundred and sixty in
breadth. On each side were nine-
teen Corinthian columns like the six
now standing, and at each end ten
—fifty-four in all. The pedestals of
the most of these columns are still
in situ. The diameter of the
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II
4lm
7>y
THE FALLEN COLUMN, BA'ALBEK.
In the peristyle on the south side of the Temple of the Sun, where only four connected columns remain in situ. Several shafts have fallen from
the temple platform into the little orchard below.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
1
1
Mm
'1
This temple fronted toward the
east on the great quadrangular court.
Its western wall stood on the three
great stones, and its northern on a
splendid wall of drafted masonry of
thirteen courses, about forty-eight
feet in height. The great peristyle
was two hundred and ninety feet in
length by one hundred and sixty in
breadth. On each side were nine-
teen Corinthian columns like the six
now standing, and at each end ten
—fifty-four in all. The pedestals of
the most of these columns are still
in situ. The diameter of the
1 <>,
II
4lm
7>y
THE FALLEN COLUMN, BA'ALBEK.
In the peristyle on the south side of the Temple of the Sun, where only four connected columns remain in situ. Several shafts have fallen from
the temple platform into the little orchard below.