Arches, Columns & Gates On Stamps

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a herdsman carrying a kid while gesturing towards the Roman ruins of Sufetula near Sbeitla, containing the best preserved Roman forum temples in Tunisia, designed by Hatem El Mekki (1918-2003), engraved by Georges Bétemps (1921-1992), and issued by Morocco on October 24, 1959, Scott No. 363A.

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Jordan
Roman Ruins
December 28, 2015
Jerash is the site of the ruins of the Greco-Roman city of Gerasa. The city was founded by Alexander the Great and his general Perdiccas in 331 B.C. The city flourished until the mid-8th century C.E. The stamp shows a colonnaded street.

Egypt
Dendera Temple Complex
November 19, 2017
Dendera Temple Complex is located about 60 km north of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile. The stamp shows the limestone columns at the entrance to Hathor Temple (380–362 B.C.).

Egypt
World Tourism Day
September 27, 2016
The stamp depicts Trajan's Kiosk, a hypaethral temple located on Agilkia Island. This 15 by 20 meter kiosk is 16 meters high and has four by five columns that are topped by piers.

Egypt
Temple of Luxor
September 12, 2018
The stamp depicts Colonnade of Amenhotep III.

Lebanon
International Festival at Baalbek
September 25, 1968
The stamp shows the main gate of the Temple of Bacchus, one of the best preserved and grandest Roman temple ruins in the world.

Tunisia
Archaeological Sites - Sbeïtla
May 18, 2007
The Roman ruins of Sbeitla in central Tunisia contains the best preserved Roman forum temples in the country. The stamp depicts the Capitol temple complex at the site.

The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. It was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, built by the Imperial War Graves Commission, and unveiled on July 24, 1927. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp depicting the Menin Gate, designed by Herman Verbaere (1905-1993), engraved by Henri Decuyper, and issued by Belgium on December 26, 1962, Scott No. B730, plus a photo of the Menin Gate.

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Here is an image of a stamp depicting the northern Gateway of Shihr, engraved and printed by Thomas De La Rue & Co., Ltd., and issued for use in Aden, Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut, in July, 1942, Scott No. 5, plus a photo of the modern restored gate.

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Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (aka Kasr-el-Heir) is a castle in the middle of the Syrian Desert, built by the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 728-29 CE, which was apparently used as a military and hunting outpost. Here is an image of a stamp depicting the main gate of Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, designed by S. Namani, engraved by French artist Émile Henri Feltesse (1881-1955), and issued by Syria in 1940, Scott No. 281, plus an image of a photograph of the gate.

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Turkey
Our Cultural Assets - Kütahya
November 29, 2012
The stamp depicts Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, an Ancient Greek city in what is now Kütahya Province. The partially preserved temple with Ionic columns and a Zeus statue was built in the latter half of the 2nd century AD.

India
India in World War I
August 20, 2019
India Gate is located astride the Rajpath, a ceremonial boulevard in New Delhi. It stands as a memorial to soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in the First World War.

Spain
Ancient Cultures
October 1, 2014
The stamp depicts rock pillars of the Talaiotic Culture during the Iron Age on the island of Minorca.

Poland
Krakow Monuments Restoration
December 20, 1982
The stamp depicts portal of the medieval Deanery in the Old Town in the city of Krakow.

Sudan
Definitive Issue
July 15, 2003
The stamp depicts sandstone columns of Temple of Soleb situated on the west bank of the Nile River in Nubia. It is the southern-most temple currently known to have been built by Amenhotep III (c. 1386-1353 BC).