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    of antiquities Maamoun Abdelkarim stated that the Temple of Bel, along with the Temple of Baalshamin and the Monumental Arch, will be rebuilt using the...
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  • local gods as well as Baalshamin, Isis, and Greco-Roman gods such as Tyche and Dionysus. They worshipped their gods at temples, high places, and betyls...
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    director of antiquities Maamoun Abdelkarim stated that the Temple of Bel, the Temple of Baalshamin and the Monumental Arch, which had been destroyed by the...
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    Abdelkarim stated that the Monumental Arch, along with the Temples of Bel and Baalshamin, will be rebuilt using existing remains, a process called anastylosis...
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    Palmyra (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Palmyrene Valley of Tombs and the city temples (most notably, the temples of Baalshamin, Al-lāt and the Hellenistic temple) began to be built. A fragmentary...
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    held reverence to her. In Islamic tradition, her worship ended when her temple in Ta'if was demolished on the orders of Muhammad. There are two possible...
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    Sonderheft Antike Welt. pp. 71 ff. Collart, Pierre (1969). Le sanctuaire de Baalshamin à Palmyre. Fentress, Elizabeth, ed. (2000). Romanization and the City...
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    Found Fabled Temple of Hercules Gaditanus". www.thearchaeologist.org. Retrieved 2023-08-03. Bonnet, Corinne, Melqart: Cultes et mythes de l'Héraclès tyrien...
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    Atargatis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Phoenicia (Hierapolis Bambyce), she was depicted entirely as a woman. This temple was nominally dedicated to "Hera", but some thought it actually consecrated...
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    Yahweh (section Temples)
    the creator deity and sole divinity to be worshipped. During the Second Temple period, speaking the name of Yahweh in public became regarded as taboo,...
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  • various deities, she receives Byblos as her domain. The temple of Baalat Gebal is mentioned in Lucian’s De Dea Syria. She is referred to as the “Byblian Aphrodite”...
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    Phoenician reference to Baalshamin. The inscription reads: (1) BT Z BNY YḤMLK MLK GBL BT Z BNY YḤMLK MLK GBL [This is] the temple that he has built, Yehimilk...
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    Almaqah (section Temples)
    Bulls were sacred to him. Both the Barran Temple and the Awwam temple were dedicated to Almaqah. The Temple of Meqaber Gaʿewa near the Ethiopian city...
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    later appears in Ibn Ishaq's account of the alleged Satanic Verses. The temple dedicated to al-ʻUzzā and the statue was destroyed by Khalid ibn al Walid...
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    Baratheh, son of Luke and his son Abubuhi in 31 AD. The god is named as Baalshamin. A Greek inscription also gives the name of the donor as Seleukos, son...
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    Wadi Ramm Temple to Allat. Rock sanctuary to Ayn esh-Shallaleh located behind temple to Allat. Betyls and cult niches to Dushara and Baalshamin. Hegra Hegra...
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    Dagon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    worshipped in ancient Syria across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come...
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    Astarte (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1515/zatw.1990.102.1.94. Retrieved 23 February 2023. Davies, Norman de Garis (1953). The Temple of Hibis in El Khārgeh oasis : Part III, the decoration. Publications...
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    Anu (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    title of the weather god Baal which developed into a separate deity, Baalshamin, and Aramaic texts indicate that he was viewed as an equivalent of Hadad...
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    Chemosh (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Mesha mentions the existence of a 𐤁𐤕 𐤊𐤌𐤔 (Bēt Kamōš, lit. 'House (Temple) of Chemosh'). Mesha recorded in his victory stela that he had built a high...
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    Baal-zephon (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Baʿal Zaphon third behind Baʿal Shamem and Baʿal Malage. In addition to his temple at Jebel Aqra and Ugarit, Baʿal Zaphon is known to have been worshipped...
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    elephants and soared above casting a shadow as big as a cloud. Embekka Temple has wood carvings depicting how it might have looked. Rabbi Benjamin of...
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  • Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) destroyed the Lion of Al-lāt, the temples of Bel and Baalshamin, the Arch of Triumph, and other sites in Palmyra. The group...
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    a resolution in 2016 to reconstruct the building. The Temple of Bel, the Temple of Baalshamin and the Monumental Arch in Palmyra, Syria, will be reconstructed...
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  • believed to be in place as the base of the old section—upon the ruins of the temple." In 66 AD, he as one of the Apostles and SanDokht (the daughter of the...
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    he's more similar to the Egyptian Horus in that capacity (comparable to Baalshamin as well). The different interpretation could also be based on the fact...
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    north-east of Damascus, Syria. An altar dedicated to the Semitic deity, Baalshamin in 94 CE, now in the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, indicates that...
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  • century AD; the local cultic calendar was that of the imperial period; the temple of Ashur was restored in the 2nd century AD; and the stelae of the local...
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    Jerusalem, as with the example of the major al-Ashrafiyya Madrasa on the Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif), which was rebuilt in its current form by Sultan...
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    Shala (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    an important temple of Adad and Shala, seemingly connected in some way with Sippar. She was also venerated in Guzana. An Assyrian temple of Adad and Shala...
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