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Location

  • Lebanon, Kfar Zabad
  • geo:33.78743,35.986794
  • Location: correct and verified

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Classification

  • temple
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Kfar Zabad

data access 25077

Limited ruins of two (Hellenistic/Roman era?) temples. Rock cut image of a goddess to the N.E. of the lower temple.Taylor has images of the site in the 1960s1, and Aliquot2 provides the references. Aliquot lists two temples, one, west facing, on the summit, a second south east and below, opening to the east, and a sactuary in quarries near the second temple, with the name Mercury associated. He also notes quarries 2 km. to the north, in the saddle at the latitude of Ain Kfar Zabad with further indications of the worship of Mercury.

References

  1. George Taylor (1967). The Roman Temples of Lebanon. Beirut : Dar el Mashreq Publishers, Plates 52-55.
  2. Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Békaa-Sud. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, p. 307, section 68.

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-02-06) , last updated by Brian Prescott-Decie (2016-07-31), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/25077
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. and Prescott-Decie, B., Kfar Zabad. https://vici.org/vici/25077, accessed 2026-05-27.