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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8210330, member: 128351&quot;]The term &quot;altar&quot; is very ambiguous, because it is used for very different things. An altar can be a simple cubic or cylindric stone block, not more than 1.00 or 1.50 m high, with a hollow in its top, in which were embers. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440250[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An altar can also be a square building more than 4m high, with monumental doors. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440251[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On coins the two kinds are represented. Altars with doors belong to the 2nd category, the Ara Pacis Augustae, in Rome, is a good example. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440256[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Julia Domna coin from Emesa (Homs, Syria) shows another kind of monumental altar. It was 2 storeys high, there probably were stairs on the back side for accessing to the summit, on which was a small cubic altar (the 1st category this time).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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