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Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, jfu Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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tags: Jupiter, extant remains

The Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus at Baalbek is considered the largest temple of the Roman world. It served as an oracular shrine.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758001563

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
34.006754, 36.2034116

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Temple of Jupiter (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Geographic Names:
- Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus makes connections with:

Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus located at Heliopolis/Col. Iulia Augusta Felix (30 BC - AD 300)

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Place type:
temple

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and jfu, 'Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758001563> [accessed: 21 January 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/758001563 |title=Places: 758001563 (Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus) |author=Becker, J., jfu |accessdate=January 21, 2025 11:16 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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