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Third plate

(1) Plan of the Temple of the Sun and its courtyard

From the enormity of this temple, and after contemplating its decorations (see plates (18 and 19), we have concluded that this temple is nothing but the Temple of the Sun, some parts of which were ruined by the Romans after the Aurelian occupation of the city, after which a large sum was allocated for its restoration, as stated in a letter addressed to Seionius Bassus Ceionius Bassus (see page). It was because of the enormity and height of its walls that the Muslims (Turks) turned it into a fortress, and for this reason they closed the northern, eastern and southern windows and dug a trench in front of it from the western side, where they destroyed on this side the portico and the huge gate to erect a tower in its place (see letter B in

Panel (1) square (1).

The courtyard of the temple is paved with wide stone slabs, and some parts of this floor have now disappeared, most of which are covered by mounds of dirt, and the part of it that is marked by lines on this plan in the northwestern side and the southwestern corner is lower in level (see plates 14 and 21) by sixteen feet from the level of the rest of the floor. We could not guess it, and the presence of rubble obscured the remnants of staircases that might have connected the two parts. That and a reason

The dark parts in this diagram are the existing sections, while the lines indicate the demolished parts. Other things can be understood by the measurements and no further explanation is needed. Important note: The measurements used in all our work are the English feet and inches.

(1) This name is given to a temple. but rather. It was destroyed by the Romans during their war with Queen Zenobia in the fall of 273 AD. As for the builders of the fort they are talking about, they are the Ayyubids at the hands of the governor, Yusuf ibn Fayrouz, in the second half of the twelfth century AD. Follow Favorite