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Ain Aata, Ain Ata, 'Ain 'Ata or Ayn Aata is a village and municipality situated southwest of Rashaya, east of Beirut, in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon. The name is thought to mean ''"gift spring"''. There is a remarkably cold spring in the area. The village was suggested by Charles William Meredith van de Velde to be the ancient site of Beth-Anath or Anatha mentioned in the Bible Book of Joshua () and the Book of Judges () as a land given to Naphtali, where the local canaanites were subjugated to forced labor by the elite of the Israelite tribe. Eusebius in his work Onomasticon, placed it from Dora (Tanturah), however this falls outside the territory of Naphtali. Beth-Anath has been translated to mean ''"temple of Anat"'', a canaanite goddess linked to a Sumerian predecessor called Ninhursag. ==Roman temple== Recent epigraphic surveys have confirmed the ruins of a Roman temple and cult site in the village that are included in a group of Temples of Mount Hermon.〔Mouterde, R., ''Antiquités de l'Hermon et de la Beqâ'' in Mélanges de l'Université St. Joseph 29, p.19-89, 1951-1952.〕 Foundations and columns of a ruined temple complex in the woods near the village were recorded by William McClure Thomson, who thought them to have once been called Kubrikha. He remarked that "the whole neighborhood is crowded with ancient but deserted sites." HARVEY(1861) p177 CEDARS.jpg|Cedars, in the hills of Ain Aata (2 June 1860)〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ain Aata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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