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From Roman Egypt by obelisk ship [8] 1st–2nd c. Temple of Jupiter [5] Baalbek, Roman Lebanon: Column drum, lower 48.5: 1st–2nd c. Temple of Jupiter [5] Baalbek, Roman Lebanon: Architrave-frieze block, central 63: Lifted by cranes to height of 19 m [10] 1st–2nd c. Temple of Jupiter [5] Baalbek, Roman Lebanon: Cornice block, corner 108
The Third Monolith in situ at Baalbek quarry, on the left beside the Stone of the Pregnant Woman. The Forgotten Stone, also called the Third Monolith, was discovered in the same quarry in 2014 by archaeologists from the German Archaeological Institute. Its weight is estimated at around 1,500 tonnes (3,300,000 lb), making it the largest stone ...
The majority were dismantled during the Roman period over 1,700 years ago and the obelisks were sent to different locations. [ citation needed ] The largest standing and tallest Egyptian obelisk is the Lateran Obelisk in the square at the west side of the Lateran Basilica in Rome at 105.6 feet (32.2 m) tall and a weight of 455 metric tons (502 ...
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Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...
Quirinus, Sabine god identified with Mars; Romulus, the founder of Rome, was deified as Quirinus after his death. Quirinus was a war god and a god of the Roman people and state, and was assigned a flamen maior; he was one of the Archaic Triad gods. Quiritis, goddess of motherhood. Originally Sabine or pre-Roman, she was later equated with Juno.
Of the 107 Roman-era inscriptions: 61 of them are written in Greek, 45 are written in Latin, and one bilingual text is written. [ 14 ] They were first studied in detail by Jean-Antoine Letronne in his 1831 La statue vocale de Memnon considérée dans ses rapports avec l'Égypte et la Grèce [ 15 ] and then catalogued in the second volume (1848 ...
There are eight ancient Egyptian and five ancient Roman obelisks in Rome, together with a number of more modern obelisks; there was also until 2005 an ancient Ethiopian obelisk in Rome. The Romans used special heavy cargo carriers called obelisk ships to transport the monuments down the Nile [ clarification needed ] to Alexandria and from there ...