The Baalbeck Archaeological Site: The Canaanite God’s mythological city (Part – 2)

By asad russel –

After Part – 1
The history of the Baalbeck Archaeological Site:
To the popular cult of Adonis and Osiris was also central the sequence of life, death and resurrection, of Egypt which came out and into Roman times flourished well. In the 4th century BC after the conquests of Alexander the Great Baalbek was Hellenized of the world along with the rest of this part. As Heliopolis named the Baalbek the Greeks, which means the City of the Sun. in Egypt from its important namesake to distinguish it, in the Phoenicia or in the Lebanon called it Heliopolis the ancient writers.

In the 1st century BC much of the region conquered the Roman general Pompey, and of the new province of Syria Baalbek became the part. The East was controlled by the Mark Antony a few decades later, and to Cleopatra Baalbek and it’s surrounding area he gave. But drove Antony and Cleopatra out of Syria the Octavian who later known as the Augustus in 31 BC and known as the Pax Romana of stability ushered in Rome’s golden age. At Baalbek began of the great Roman temples that the construction it was in this context.

From scratch did not start the Romans. On the site pre-Hellenistic remains of sanctuary have discovered the archaeologists, where were worshipped the Baal and other Canaanite gods. Around a natural crevice it centered, before anything was built the original sacred site which was probably. To the existing sanctuary added Hellenistic elements both the Ptolemies and the Seleucids.

In the 1st century AD was constructed the Roman Temple of Jupiter. In the year 60 it was nearing completion that indicates on the top of a column shaft an inscription. In the early 2nd century the Great Court was added. Not only in the great size the temple was unique, but the Eastern architectural influences of it and by non-Romans in large part in its financing, as their own fully regarded the Heliopolitan Jupiter that the local people it’s an indicator. Under Antoninus Pius in the later 2nd century began the construction of the Temple of Bacchus, in the empire Bacchus had become popular after the cult. In the early 4th century to Christianity until the conversion of Constantine continued the construction of the great complex, with many details left unfinished when it came to halt.

The Jupiter Heliopolitan was the supreme god who worshipped at the Baalbek or Heliopolis under the Roman rule, of a Baal and Jupiter a complex fusion. At Baalbek in the Temple of Jupiter the statue that stood by the ancient writers was described with ears of corn as holding a thunderbolt and by two bulls being flanked, of Jupiter, Mercury and Venus of a Helipolitan Triad he was the part. Than they were Greco-Roman were more Syrian at the temple the religious rituals, but an oracle did include the site by the emperors which was consulted. Today in the Lebanon the Baalbeck Archaeological Site is the best preserved Roman ruins site.

Will continue……..
   

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