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Recent Ptolemaic Finds in Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

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Alexandria. —At Kom esh Shuqafa the Graeco-Roman Museum under the direction of Alan Rowe carried out in 1941-2 supplementary investigations in the catacombs. These reveal that the catacombs and other tombs were cut out in a great semicircular rock plateau which originally rose to a height of fifty feet above the surrounding area. This had been obscured by the great mass of debris which had accumulated over and around the rock.

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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1945

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1 See Bull. Soc. R. Arch. Alex. xxxv. (1942) 3 ff.Google Scholar

2 See the reports in Bull. Soc. R. Arch. Alex. xxxv. (1942 54 ff., 124 ff.Google Scholar and in the forthcoming Vol. XLIV of the Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte.

3 See Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts, Farouk 1st University II p. 17 ff.Google Scholar

4 See below, p. 109.

5 Breccia, , Bull. Soc. R. Arch. Alex. xxvi. 260 f.Google Scholar, Pl. XXVI; see also Adriani, , Annuario del Museo Greco-Romano I. 47Google Scholar, Pl. XXIV.

6 This altar is published in Vol. xxxvi. of the Bulletin of the Société Royale d'Archéologie d'Alexandrie.

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8 Adriani, , Annuario del Museo Greco-Romano I. 11 ff.Google Scholar

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10 Under Aurelian the Brucheion quarter in which this site probably lay was almost completely destroyed.

11 Strzygowski, , Bull. Soc. R. Arch. Alex. v. 1 ff.Google Scholar

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14 One is published by Jouguet, , Bull. Soc. R. Arch. Alex. xxxv. 85 ff.Google Scholar, and the other in the same periodical, xxxvi. 26 ff.

15 Baraize, , Annales du Service des Antiquités XL. 741 ff.Google Scholar

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