Temple of Jupiter leaning column Baalbek Holy Land (i.e. Balabakk Lebanon) – Vintage Photo Print
![Temple of Jupiter leaning column Baalbek Holy Land (i.e. Balabakk Lebanon), [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e250218f8a0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Temple of Jupiter leaning column Baalbek Holy Land (i.e. Balabakk Lebanon), preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Temple of Jupiter leaning column Baalbek Holy Land (i.e. Balabakk Lebanon)
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A single tilted column rising above the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek is the detail that sets this view apart from other scenes of the site. The temple, one of the largest Roman sanctuaries in the eastern Mediterranean, was built on a much older religious site in the Beqaa Valley, and by the 1890s it stood among tumbled blocks and fallen shafts. The Photochrom process used to make this print combined photography with hand-applied color from multiple stone plates, and Detroit Publishing Co. sold these views to American buyers as images of the Holy Land.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 15098. Views of the Holy Land |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,730 × 2,770 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4230_Temple_of_Jupiter_leani_1890.tif-02646u |
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