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Beth She’an: Corinthian Columns

Beth She’an: Corinthian Columns

‎Washed by the rain, two columns of a temple that crashed onto the basalt stones during the massive earthquake of 749 A.D. The Corinthian capital of the column looks as if it had toppled off just yesterday. Four huge columns, 9.5 meters high, stood on 2-meter high pedestals at the facade of the temple. The sight of the columns lying helplessly like this in the excavations at the Beth She’an National Park reminds the visitor how small is man and his works, even the mightiest and most splendid of them, in face of nature’s wrath.


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