Qasr Chbib

{{Short description|Roman temples}}

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Qasr Chbib is a complex of two Roman temples situated a few hundred meters from the summit of Mount Hermon.{{cite book|author=E. A. Myers|title=The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East: Reassessing the Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cRrGQ8bIAkC&pg=PA93|access-date=23 September 2012|date=11 February 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-51887-1|pages=93–}} Officially in the Quneitra District of Syria, web mapping shows the ruins to be in the Hasbaya District of the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.{{cite book|author=Université Saint-Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon)|title=Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6lhAAAAMAAJ|access-date=23 September 2012|year=2007|publisher=Impr. catholique}}

Both of the sanctuaries have northern walls that were carved out of solid bedrock. The western temple has an area at the back in place of an Adyton that was also hewn out of the rock escarpment.{{cite book|author=Ted Kaizer|title=The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East In the Hellenistic and Roman Periods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KgVD3WL0vAsC&pg=PA76|access-date=23 September 2012|year=2008|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-16735-3|pages=76–}} Kevin Butcher suggested that this design was employed to bring the temples "closer to the gods".{{cite book|author=Kevin Butcher|title=Roman Syria and the Near East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YJPn3-rRjC0C&pg=PA352|access-date=23 September 2012|date=19 February 2004|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-0-89236-715-3|pages=352–}}