The Temple of Allat was completed in the 2nd century BCE within a walled sanctuary guarded by statues of Canaanite lions. The most famous is the “Lion of Allat,” at 3.5 meters high, a protective symbol combining a lion’s head and a gazelle’s body. Its structure is rectangular with a four-column portico in front. The Romans restored the walls with imported limestone slabs, while Arabs later used it as a small prayer hall. An extremist group’s explosion damaged the facade and the lion, which was cut into pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Temple of Allat was completed in the 2nd century BCE within a walled sanctuary guarded by statues of Canaanite lions. The most famous is the “Lion of Allat,” at 3.5 meters high, a protective symbol combining a lion’s head and a gazelle’s body. Its structure is rectangular with a four-column portico in front. The Romans restored the walls with imported limestone slabs, while Arabs later used it as a small prayer hall. An extremist group’s explosion damaged the facade and the lion, which was cut into pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,358],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homs","category-religious-monuments-homs","tag-partially-destroyed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}