Conjectural reconstruction of the Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek: the lacunaria (figures in hexagons)
| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA67452 |
| Artist/Photographer | Borra, Giovanni Battista (1713-1786)
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| Country | Lebanon |
| City | Baalbek |
| Subject Date | 0001 |
| Image Date | 1751 |
| View | Interior |
| Style | Roman |
| Medium | Drawing |
| Library Reference | VOS/142 f29 |
| Orientation | Portrait |
| Colour / B&W |
Colour |
| Credit |
RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
This is one of a series of drawings Borra made to be engraved for the work by Robert Wood, The Ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria (London, 1757).
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Subject tags
ceilings, decorative stonework, temples