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Temple of Venus, Baalbek: Interior showing engaged pediment detail

Date

Circa 1910

Creator

G. Massiot & cie
Part of: Architectural Lantern Slides of Lebanon
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries

The small 'Temple of Venus' (3rd century AD) has a circular cella surrounded by Corinthian columns and is entered through a tetrastyle porch of two rows of columns, approached up a flight of steps. Both the entablature around the back of the cella and the podium on which the columns stand are constructed in a series of concave curves, a baroque design unparalleled in surviving ancient monuments.

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Creator
G. Massiot & cie
Date
Circa 1910
Publisher
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Material Type
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Link to Finding Aid
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