Har Senaim or Senaim (; Arabic: Hafur el-Qurn,Reshumot. .Yalkut HaPirsumim, 13.7.1988, p.2767 (in Hebrew and English). or Tell el-Hafur, Har Senaim – Archaeological Survey of Israel (Hebrew) or Wright. Religion in Seleukid Syria: gods at the crossroads (301-64 BC). 2010. p. 248. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/166503.), is an archaeological site that sits on a peak near Mount Hermon in the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, north east of Kiryat Shmona and from Banias.Book Review of "Archaic Cyprus: A Study of the Textual and Archaeological Evidence" by A.T. Reyes, Diana Buitron-Oliver, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 303, pp. 98-100, The American Schools of Oriental Research, August 1996.
History The site features a Roman temple and settlement that has been included in a group of Temples of Mount Hermon.S. Dar & J. Mintzker., "A Roman Temple at Senaim, Mt. Hermon", Eretz-Israel, 19, pp. 30-45, Jerusalem, 1987. The ruins of a second Ancient Greek temple were also found nearby. The Roman temple featured an altar carved with a relief of Helios, the sun god. The shrine at Har Senaim was carved out of solid bedrock. The settlement measures approximately .
Various ancient Greek inscriptions were found at the site.S. Dar and N. Kokkinos, "The Greek Inscriptions from Senaim on Mt. Hermon", Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 124, 9-25. 35, 1992.Di Segni, Leah., On a dated inscription from Rakhle and the eras used on the Hermon Range, in Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphic 117, pp. 277-280, 1997. One inscription found on the altar called upon the great Gods in an appeal for the salvation of the Emperor Hadrian. Other finds included a basalt animal muzzle and a brass ring that was decorated with the image of a merman. A coin minted by the Hasmonean ruler John Hyrcanus was also found at the site.
Several coins were found dating to Byzantine and Mamluk periods. The complex at Har Senaim has been suggested to be a cult site or funerary garden and compared to the high places mentioned in the Books of Kings.
References
Further reading Shim'on Dar. "The History of the Hermon Settlements", Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 120, pp. 26–44, 1988. Har Senaim – Archaeological Survey of Israel (Photos of finds. Hebrew description.)