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Behind the columns

The Temple of Bacchus, Lebanon.

 

"The temple, however, is but a single aspect of the vast complex. Baalbek is unequaled for boldness of concept and skill in utilizing Herculean masonry."

 

— G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. p34.

 

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