unique example in Lebanon. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Some indices, which are added to --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- its form and its orientation in --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- direction of the Great Temple, --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- identify it as being the Temple of --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- the Fortune of Baalbeck or the --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- goddess Venus. This temple was --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- devoted, during the Byzantine --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- period, to Saint Barbara, today the --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- patron saint of Baalbeck. --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Next to the temple of Venus, in the