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JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY
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JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY

223. Baalbec. Pet.[it] temple à l'Ouest

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JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY
223. Baalbec. Pet.[it] temple à l'Ouest
Daguerreotype. n.d.[1843-44] Titled and numbered in ink on label on verso.
3¾ x 4 3/8in. (9.5 x 11.1cm.)
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A mysterious photograph of the remains of an unidentified small temple. There had been a sanctuary at Baalbek before the Romans decided to build there and the simple unadorned columns and flat slab beams in this temple suggest it pre-dates the other Roman temple buildings on the site.

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