The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ) Ruins. The ruins of Heliopolis lie on aneastern branch of the mountain, and are called, byway of eminence, the Castle. The most prominentobjects visible from the plain are a lofty portico ofsix columns, part of the great temple, and thewalls and columns of another smaller temple alittle below, surrounded by green trees. There isalso a singular and unique circular temple, if it BAALBEK
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . ) Ruins. The ruins of Heliopolis lie on aneastern branch of the mountain, and are called, byway of eminence, the Castle. The most prominentobjects visible from the plain are a lofty portico ofsix columns, part of the great temple, and thewalls and columns of another smaller temple alittle below, surrounded by green trees. There isalso a singular and unique circular temple, if it BAALBEK OR BAALBEC 201 BAAL HANAN may be so called, of which we give a , with a curious column on the highest pointwithin the walls (which may possibly have been aclepsydra, or water-dial), form the only erect por-tions of the ruins. These ruins have been so oftenand so minutely described by scores of travelers,?is well as in many works of general reference,that, since their identification as a Scriptural siteis uncertain, a few additional observations onlymay suffice. The ruins at Baalbek in the massare apparently of three successive eras: first,the gigantic hewn stones, in the face of the plat-. Ruins of Heliopolis. form or basement on which the temple stands, andwhich appear to be remains of older buildings,perhaps of the more ancient temple which occu-pied the site. Among these are at least twentystanding upon a basement of rough stones, whichwould be called enormous anywhere but celebrated blocks, which in fact form thegreat wonder of the place, vary from 30 to 40 feetin length; but there are three, forming an uppercourse 20 feet from the ground, which togethermeasure 190 feet, being severally of the enormousdimensions of 63 and 64 feet in length, by 12 inbreadth and thickness (Addisons Damascus andPalmyra, ii:55). They are, says Richter (IVall-fahrten, p. 281), the largest stones I have everseen, and might of themselves have easily givenrise to the popular
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