The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt by Steven Snape

The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt by Steven Snape

Author:Steven Snape
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2017-02-20T16:00:00+00:00


The Satrap Stela is one of a group of royal stelae produced during the Ptolemaic Period to establish and regulate donations of land and other economic resources to temples, sometimes with multilingual texts. The Rosetta Stone is the most famous of these stelae. Florence Maruéjol.

Plan of Alexandria showing some of the major features of the city in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Steven Snape.

Other parts of the city are less easy to identify apart from a few archaeological survivals such as the Serapeum – the temple of the new Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, which is in part of the city now marked by a triumphal column of the emperor Diocletian, erroneously referred to as ‘Pompey’s Pillar’.



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