You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Stone of the Pregnant Woman

Stone of the Pregnant Woman

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: jfu

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 21, 2021 02:15 PM — History

The Stone of the Pregnant Woman in Baalbek, Lebanon is one of the largest monoliths ever quarried.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633455581

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
33.9991672, 36.2001212

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of so-called Stone of the Pregnant Woman (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Ethnic Names:
- Hajar el Hibla (Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Stone of the Pregnant Woman makes connections with:

Stone of the Pregnant Woman located at Heliopolis/Col. Iulia Augusta Felix (AD 1 - AD 99)

Stone of the Pregnant Woman receives connections from:

None

Place type:
quarry, monument

References:

See Further:

Related:

vici.org 17892: Quarry, Baalbek

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
jfu, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Stone of the Pregnant Woman: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633455581> [accessed: 21 May 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633455581 |title=Places: 633455581 (Stone of the Pregnant Woman) |author=jfu |accessdate=May 21, 2025 8:31 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Stone of the Pregnant Woman