Baalbek - Heliopolis 'City of The Sun'

عن الكتاب

Nina Jidejian author of four studies on the Phoenician cities Byblos, Tyre, Sidon and Beirut published in the series Through the Ages, now presents a historical and archaeological background of baalbek-Heliopolis, 'City of the Sun', and the cult of its god Jupiter Heliopolitanus and the Heliopolitan triad. 'The extensive bibliography at ... the end of this book', writes the author, is evidence in itself of the vast amount of research and work done on Baalbek-Heliopolis in the past by such eminent scholars as Otto Puchestein and members of the German Archaeological Mission (1898-1905), Rene Dussaud, Louis Jalabert, S.J., Sebastien Ronzevalle, S.J., Heri Seyrig, Daniel Schloumberger, Jean-Paul Rey-Coquais and members of Lebanon's Department of Antiquities under its Director General, Emir Maurice Chehab. This work is a modest attempt to bring together this wealth of material'.