Aaiha

Aaiha
ايحه

A cement mixer on the central hill in the Aaiha Plain

State :

Lebanon

Governorate :

Bekaa

Coordinates :

33 ° 30 ' N , 35 ° 52' E Coordinates: 33 ° 30 ' N , 35 ° 52' E

Time zone :

UTC + 2

Aaiha

Aaiha ( Arabic ايحه) is a place in Lebanon located in the Rachaya district south of the Bekaa governorate . It is located between Rachaya and a place called Kfar Qouq . The Roman temple at Aaiha was built in 92 AD.

Edward Robinson visited Aaiha in 1852. He documented a temple in an intermittent body of water in the Aaiha plain. It is an underground stream that forms a lake over a cave to the northwest. Robinson compared the lake with the lake named "Phiala" (Greek-Latin for 'shell') mentioned by Flavius Josephus . The river is known as the " Well of the Hasbani ". The plain has a diameter of two kilometers. It is circular and surrounded by hills. Fadi Georges Comair explains: "Lake Aaiha forms the border between three countries: Lebanon, Syria and Israel ". George Taylor documented the temple, which is one of many around Hermon .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Julien Aliquot: Sanctuaries and Villages on Mt Hermon during the Roman Period. In: Ted Kaizer (Ed.): The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (= Religions in the Graeco-Roman World. 164). Brill, Leiden et al. 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16735-3 , pp. 73-96, here pp. 79 ff.
^ Edward Robinson, Eli Smith: Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petræa. A journal of Travels in the year 1838. (Volume 4): Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent Regions. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1852. J. Murray, London 1856, pp. 433 f.
^ Fadi Georges Comair: Water management and hydrodiplomacy of river basins. Litani, Hasbani-Wazzani, Orontes, Nahr El Kebir. Notre Dame University - Water Energy & Environment Research Center, Louaize 2009, ISBN 978-9953-457-74-1 .
↑ George Taylor: The Roman Temples of Lebanon. A pictorial guide. = Les temples romains au Liban. Guide illustré. Enlarged edition. Dar-el-Mashreq Publishers, Beirut 1971, pp. 23, 134, 171.

[Kaizer2008-1] Julien Aliquot: Sanctuaries and Villages on Mt Hermon during the Roman Period. In: Ted Kaizer (Ed.): The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (= Religions in the Graeco-Roman World. 164). Brill, Leiden et al. 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16735-3 , pp. 73-96, here pp. 79 ff.

[RobinsonSmith1856-2] Edward Robinson, Eli Smith: Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petræa. A journal of Travels in the year 1838. (Volume 4): Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent Regions. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1852. J. Murray, London 1856, pp. 433 f.

[Comair2009-3] Fadi Georges Comair: Water management and hydrodiplomacy of river basins. Litani, Hasbani-Wazzani, Orontes, Nahr El Kebir. Notre Dame University - Water Energy & Environment Research Center, Louaize 2009, ISBN 978-9953-457-74-1 .

[Taylor1971-4] George Taylor: The Roman Temples of Lebanon. A pictorial guide. = Les temples romains au Liban. Guide illustré. Enlarged edition. Dar-el-Mashreq Publishers, Beirut 1971, pp. 23, 134, 171.