Sanctuary of Baalshamin

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dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Palmyra (Hims (governorate), Syria)	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	creation date: 14-273	en_US
dc.creator	Unknown	en_US
dc.date	14-273	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-09-30T20:51:19Z
dc.date.available	2010-09-30T20:51:19Z
dc.date.issued	14-273	en_US
dc.identifier	148274	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/55620	en_US
dc.description	The cosmic god Baalshamin (equated, like Bel, with Greek Zeus) had a new, walled three-court sanctuary (see fig. 2), recalling that at Seeia in southern Syria, laid out with a northern shrine (c. ad 11–c. 23), a portico (ad 67) and a ritual banquet room. Tadmor’s earliest surviving structure, a Mesopotamian-style hypogeum ‘underground tomb’ with arched stone doorway and brick-vaulted corridor containing nine loculi (burial compartments) and graves, used c. 150 bc–ad 11, was probably away from housing, but later, as dwellings advanced, it was preserved within the Sanctuary of Baalshamin (1d). The real spur to development seems to have come with semi-independence (c. 64 bc–c. ad 14), when stone began to supplement and supplant mud-brick.exterior is classical in appearance, while the design of the interior is more in keeping with a Semitic cult, and includes an adyton [adyta = small inner rooms adjacent to or within the naos, found in some ancient temples]	en_US
dc.description	exterior, 1992	en_US
dc.format.medium	stone	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	124834	en_US
dc.rights	(c) June Williamson 1992	en_US
dc.subject	Temples	en_US
dc.subject	Zeus (Greek deity)	en_US
dc.subject	Ruined cities	en_US
dc.subject	Sanctuaries	en_US
dc.subject	Imperial (Roman)	en_US
dc.subject	Architecture --Syria	en_US
dc.subject	Syria --Antiquities	en_US
dc.subject	Extinct cities	en_US
dc.subject	Gods, Roman	en_US
dc.subject	Gods, Greek	en_US
dc.subject	Adyta	en_US
dc.title	Sanctuary of Baalshamin	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Temple of Baal-Shamin	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Sanctuary of Baal Shamin	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	Williamson 9-19	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Roman	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Syrian	en_US
vra.technique	construction	en_US
vra.worktype	Temple	en_US
vra.worktype	Sanctuary (religious building space)	en_US
dc.contributor.display	Roman, Syrian	en_US