page_title: Stone of the Pregnant Woman
section_title: Third monolith
hierarchical_section_title: Stone of the Pregnant Woman / Third monolith
caption_attribution_description: Megaliths in Baalbek quarry, Baalbek, Lebanon
context_page_description: The Stone of the Pregnant Woman or Stone of the South is a Roman monolith in Baalbek, Lebanon. Together with another ancient stone block nearby, it is among the largest monoliths ever quarried. The two building blocks were presumably intended for the nearby Roman temple complex, possibly as an addition to the so-called trilithon, and are characterised by a monolithic gigantism that was unparallelled in antiquity.
context_section_description: A third ancient monolith was discovered in the same quarry in 2014 by the German Archaeological Institute. Its weight is estimated at around 1650 t, making it one of the largest stones ever quarried.
  It measures:
  19.6 m long
  6 m wide
  at least 5.5 m high (still partly buried)
caption: The Third Megalith in Baalbek quarry
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