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The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek. The location of the megalithic ...
Cultic activity had long taken place at the site; the temple presumably replaced an earlier one, possibly using the same foundation. [a] It was the biggest temple dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maxiums Heliopolitanus in all the Roman Empire. The columns were 19.9 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters: the biggest in the classical world.
The Temple of Jupiter, already greatly damaged by earthquakes, [89] was demolished under Theodosius in 379 and replaced by another basilica (now lost), using stones scavenged from the pagan complex. [90] The Easter Chronicle states he was also responsible for destroying all the lesser temples and shrines of the city. [91]
The word trilithon is derived from the Greek 'having three stones' (Tri - three, lithos - stone) and was first used by William Stukeley. The term also describes the groups of three stones in the Hunebed tombs of the Netherlands and the three massive stones forming part of the wall of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon. [1]
The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus (Latin: Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini; Italian: Tempio di Giove Ottimo Massimo; lit. ' Temple of Jupiter , the Best and Greatest ' ), was the most important temple in Ancient Rome , located on the Capitoline Hill .
The site of the former Suni Sands mobile home park on Monday, June 26, 2023, in Jupiter, Fla. The town of Jupiter recently denied a developer a permit to dig on the site because Native American ...
Temple of Jupiter Stator (8th century BC) (Jupiter the Unmoving), in the Roman Forum; destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome; Temple of Jupiter Stator (2nd century BC), in the Campus Martius; Temple of Jupiter Victor, ruins on the Palatine Hill which until 1956 were thought to be a temple to Jupiter, but are now identified as the Temple of Apollo ...
Speculative model of the first Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in Rome. The first building of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill was the oldest large temple in Rome, dedicated to the Capitoline Triad consisting of Jupiter and his companion deities, Juno and Minerva, and had a cathedral-like position in the official religion of Rome.