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The Ruins of Baalbek

a desert city
the rubble of Palmyra
an ancient landscape

Print shows a view of the ruins at Balbec, with two men holding long spears in the foreground among fragments of buildings, (A) on the left and (B) on the right, with the columns of the Temple of Jupiter (D) and the Temple of Bacchus (C) in the background. Some features are identified by letter; lacks key.

Engraved by Thomas Major after a drawing by Giovanni Battista Borra.
Published in The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria by Robert Wood 1775.

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