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Location

  • Lebanon, Qsarnaba
  • geo:33.913345,35.990585
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • 1xx / unknown

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Roman temple at Qsarnaba

data access 11956

Substantial Roman temple at Qsarnaba1. The temple has six Corinthian order columns and opens to the east on the hilltop. An altar is partly cut from the bedrock. Like several other temples around, (e.g. the nymphaeum at Ain Houchbai), this one has an inscription in Latin (giving the name of a priest or donor, Nonianus, whose statue is visible).Full details and references are supplied by Aliquot2. Livius also supplies good information and photographs3.

References

  1. George Taylor (1967). The Roman Temples of Lebanon. Beirut : Dar el Mashreq Publishers. Plates 17-19
  2. Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Békaa-Sud. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, pp. 297-298, Section 57.
  3. Livius (2015). Qsarnaba

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by René Voorburg (2012-12-31) , last updated by Jona Lendering (2020-08-13), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11956
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: Voorburg, R. and Lendering, J., Roman temple at Qsarnaba. https://vici.org/vici/11956, accessed 2026-06-11.