Temple of Jupiter in Lebanon photo copyrighted by: Galen R. Frysinger Under Roman rule, the supreme god worshipped at Baalbeck/Heliopolis
was Jupiter Heliopolitan, a complex fusion of a Baal and Jupiter. The statue that stood in the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbeck was described by ancient writers as holding a thunderbolt with ears of corn and being flanked by two bulls.
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