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Location

  • Lebanon, El Fourzol
  • geo:33.873974,35.94545
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • not yet provided

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Fourzol (Ferzol) Temple

data access 27637

I have not yet found this one. George Taylor's description1 has it "on the outskirts of Fourzol village, on the right" presumably going up the hill. There is little to see though there are broken remains of a dedicatory inscription in Latin from the architrave. Aliquot records the podium as being partially visible, though mostly under an asphalted road2.

Further up the path which climbs the hill, at a point known as Fourzol Habis, there are "hermit caves" at least one of which looks very like a rock carved temple. Another, further north, along the scarp of the hill is similar. A bit further south, there is a rock carving, possibly Christian. This whole area clearly needs further investigation.

References

  1. George Taylor (1967). The Roman Temples of Lebanon. Beirut : Dar el Mashreq Publishers. p. 125 and plate 4.
  2. Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Békaa-Sud. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, p. 306, section 61.

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Creators: Entry created by Brian Prescott-Decie (2016-06-17) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/27637
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: Prescott-Decie, B. , Fourzol (Ferzol) Temple. https://vici.org/vici/27637, accessed 2026-05-18.