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How Bel Temple at Palmyra Laid out Using Cord
By Robert Kerson 7/23/2014
(The reader must first read my paper, Method By Which Jewish
Temple In Jerusalem Could Have Been
Laid Outbefore reading this paper or my introductory
paperDiscovery of a Sacred Ancient Survey
Technique used in the Middle east. This paper I present as a
proof that the Jerusalem temple used thesame survey technique since
the designers of the Jerusalem temple must have had knowledge of
sacred
temple building techniques. This is confirmed stated in
2Chronicles 2:1-13. This knowledge could not
have existed in a vacuum but very likely was known throughout
the region. This knowledge could be
expected to be used in Semitic pagan temples dating from the
time a Jerusalem Temple existed.)
The temple complex consisted of a sacred large (outer) square
marking a columned stoa,
with a smaller (inner) square marking an inner court yard
area.
Below are two diagrams1: the upper one showing the outer square
marked in solid lines, and
the lower one showing the inner square marked in solid lines.
(The stoa is the area between the
solid and dashed lines.) The inner court yard has a rectangular
raised podium on which the
rectangular temple building was placed. The building had a non-
symmetrical doorway with an
accompanying staircase. An altar, marked 1 in both diagrams, and
a basin, marked 2 in bothdiagrams, were built in the court yard
outside the temple building.
The upper and lower diagrams show 8:8:5 triangles whose long
sides are the lengths of the
respective solid lineslarger triangles on the top diagram, and
smaller triangles on the bottom
diagram. The red dots show the 6x/8x (or 2x/8x ) point on the
long side of a triangle. This was
an important point on the triangle since it was used to locate
the central axis line of the
Jerusalem Temple. The black circles show intersections of
triangle lines on features of the
temple complex. The reader can note how structures such as the
altar and basin could have
been laid out using triangles. The sides of the inner podium
also could have been marked out by
these triangles. Note how the eastern edge of the temple podium
(shown as the right side of
podium) could have been laid out from both the top and bottom
diagrams. Another major
observation is that the off center doorway and staircase could
be explained by use of these
triangles. The center axis line shown in red in the top diagram
is in line with two pairs of
triangles, shown circled in red.
1 Simplified and copied off of a number of diagrams. .
