(Please read from the start)
The Trilithon of the Temple of Jupiter is not the only one of its kind. There are also 3 identical blocks in the quarry. One of them is called, for a strange, reason Hajar el hebleh = the pregnant stone. It’s more than certain that the Trilithon came from this quarry and the 3 blocks you see still in it were also being cut in the quarry to be, later on, taken to the temple’s site. But one of these megaliths in the quarry cracked while it was being cut in the quarry, so it was abandoned. We don’t know what exactly happened for the work in the quarry to have stopped and the other blocks to be abandoned like this.
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