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Writing in 400 AD, Jerome says that in his day an equestrian statue of Hadrian stood over the Holy of Holies.<ref>Jerome, ''Commentary on Matthew 24.15'', 400 AD. "the statue of the mounted Hadrian, which stands to this very day on the site of the Holy of Holies."</ref> Hadrian also built a Temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon. The ruins of this temple still stand. If Hadrian's temple in Jerusalem followed a similar plan, this statute was at site of the fountain.
Writing in 400 AD, Jerome says that in his day an equestrian statue of Hadrian stood over the Holy of Holies.<ref>Jerome, ''Commentary on Matthew 24.15'', 400 AD. "the statue of the mounted Hadrian, which stands to this very day on the site of the Holy of Holies."</ref> Hadrian also built a Temple to Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon. The ruins of this temple still stand. If Hadrian's temple in Jerusalem followed a similar plan, this statute was at site of the fountain.
===West side of al-Aqsa===
The trumpeting stone of the temple was found in 1968 near Robertson Arch near the southwest corner of Temple Mount. As this stone fell off the Western Wall, the discovery confirms that the wall, where today's Jews go to pray, was a part of the Herodian temple. If we follow the dimensions given by Josephus, the Herodian temple extended 1 furlong in both directions from the southwest corner. This would put the temple of the west side of al-Aqsa, according to Norma Robertson. Archaeologists claim that this area was the Royal Stoa, a government building for the bureaucracy and courts of Herod's kingdom.
===Dome of the Spirits===
===Dome of the Spirits===