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 Kadesh  18 pictures
 0.30 minutes HQ video Near the border between Lebanon and Israel, an antiquity hill may be found. The assumption is that this is the site of the town Kadesh, which existed during Bible times. Kadesh  East of the hill, traces of a huge structure, a Roman temple, were preserved. The structure is rectangular and built of large smooth stones, without using cement. In the front of the building, a six column portico was built, whose bases were partly exposed. Their capitols were Corinth styled. Additional stone sculpture decorations, as well as lintels, afrises and doorposts were found scattered around. In the front of the building there was a main entrance, and two side entrances, which were smaller. Inside, across from the main entrance, a round niche was built where in the past the worshiped god's sculpture was standing. One of the inscriptions indicates that it was the god of the skies- baal shamin, who was considered one of the most important gods back in Roman times, in that area of Phoenicia and southern Syria. There are traces of many other temples in Lebanon and in Syria. The Kadesh temple is the most southern one. Its inscriptions, and according to its architectural and artistic characteristics, indicate that the castle was built and active in the second and third centuries A. D.     Back to Israel Index
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