Alexandria Municipality: A Guide to the Ancient and Modern Town and to Its Graeco-Roman MuseumIstituto italiano d'arti grafiche, 1922 - 368 pagina's |
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... represented by a Consul . From a religious point of view variety is no less marked . The majority is naturally Mussulman , but there are also many Catholics of different rites , many members of the Orthodox Church , Protestants ...
... represented by a Consul . From a religious point of view variety is no less marked . The majority is naturally Mussulman , but there are also many Catholics of different rites , many members of the Orthodox Church , Protestants ...
Pagina 38
... represented the national traditions , he watched over the interests of the town and was the high priest of the cult of Alexander ) ; the archidicast or chief judge ; the hypomnematograph or secretary general ; the night strategus ; the ...
... represented the national traditions , he watched over the interests of the town and was the high priest of the cult of Alexander ) ; the archidicast or chief judge ; the hypomnematograph or secretary general ; the night strategus ; the ...
Pagina 47
... represents the number of the volumes in the Library , with the exception of duplicates . Dziatzko and others consider the number 90,000 refers to the rolls of which a single one com- prised either several books , or portions of several ...
... represents the number of the volumes in the Library , with the exception of duplicates . Dziatzko and others consider the number 90,000 refers to the rolls of which a single one com- prised either several books , or portions of several ...
Pagina 56
... represented there and a long series of images of saints . Another Christian catacomb was lat- ely discovered to the east of the town , on the hills near Hadra ( see Bull . Soc . Arch . Alex . , n . 11 , p . 278-288 ) , but it has been ...
... represented there and a long series of images of saints . Another Christian catacomb was lat- ely discovered to the east of the town , on the hills near Hadra ( see Bull . Soc . Arch . Alex . , n . 11 , p . 278-288 ) , but it has been ...
Pagina 66
... represents the height of the ( 1 ) The geologist YANKO ( Das Delta des Nil ) was the first to draw at- tention to the subsidence of the soil of Alexandria . The earthquakes of the XIX century were historic . It is not necessary to ...
... represents the height of the ( 1 ) The geologist YANKO ( Das Delta des Nil ) was the first to draw at- tention to the subsidence of the soil of Alexandria . The earthquakes of the XIX century were historic . It is not necessary to ...
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Alexandria Municipality: A Guide to the Ancient and Modern Town and to Its ... Evaristo Breccia Volledige weergave - 1922 |
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Abukir Alex Alexander Alexandria amphorae ancient antiquity beautiful BIBLIOGRAPHY body Botti BRECCIA bronze bust Canopus capitals carved cemetery centre century B. C. Cerberus Chatby chiton cinerary urns Cleopatra Coarse-grained white marble coins colossal column compartment crown decorated dedicated discovered divinity edifice Egypt Egyptian Emperor entrance epoch excavations face figurines forehead fragments front funerary Glass-case goddess granite Greek Hadra hair harbour Harpocrates head height Hellenistic himation inscription Isis lamps left hand limestone lower mantle metres middle monuments mosaic mummy Museum neck Necropolis niches nummulitic Osiris painted papyri Pharos Pillar placed Pompey's Pillar portrait Ptolemy Ptolemy II REINACH relief represented right hand Roman Rosetta round ruins Saint Menas sarcophagus scene seated Serapeum Serapis serpent Shelf shoulder side solar disc standing statue statuettes stelae Strabo surmounted Taposiris Magna temple terracotta tomb town tunic upper uraeus vase wall wearing winged woman workmanship
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Pagina 197 - The face is turned very slightly to the right, and the weight of the body rests on the right leg, the left being bent at the knee, with only the ball of the foot and toes touching the ground behind.
Pagina 300 - These pieces bear the head of Mars on the obverse, and on the reverse an eagle standing on a thunderbolt, with the inscription 'Roma
Pagina 55 - Theonas (282-3oo) near the shore of the Eunostos Harbour was reconstructed and enlarged by the patriarch Alexander (313-326). After that date it was used as the cathedral of Saint Mary until the close of the IVth century, when the Caesareum became the cathedral. Under Mussulman domination Saint Mary's church was turned into a mosque. The Arabs gave it the name of Western Mosque (Gamaa El Gharbi) or Mosque of a thousand pillars. Its site must be in the Marina Quarter, on the spot where the convent...
Pagina 345 - The transept has a length of 50 metres. The total length of the group of sacred buildings, comprising the basilica, the earlier church over the Saint's tomb, and the baptistery, is as much as 120 metres.
Pagina 99 - ... the tale told by a dragoman belonging to the Russian Consulate at Alexandria, Schilizzi by name, who pretended that in 185o he had penetrated into the vaults below the Mosque, and had seen there through a hole in a wooden door « in a kind of cage made of glass, a human body whose head was surmounted by a diadem. The figure was bent up on a throne or elevation of some sort. A number of books and papyri were scattered around ». This tale is evidently fictitious. Schilizzi had read Strabo and...
Pagina 330 - ... for he changes his clothes every time he changes his occupation. The fireplace is in the middle of the wall at the end of the room; some logs are always kept blazing in it on account of the damp, for beneath the stone floor is the cistern which receives the water from the gutters when it rains, and this causes the flags to be always slimy and wet.
Pagina 54 - VIh centuries there were no less than six hundred of them, all built like fortresses : « they were like pigeon-cots » said Severus of Achmunein. The group of monasteries of the Hennaton (ninth mile) was the most famous. The Museum possesses 16 epitaphs from the cemeteries belonging to this group of monasteries. The Persians in their siege of Alexandria...
Pagina 317 - Meydum, as the apartments where the relatives of the deceased met for a funeral repast on the days sacred to the worship of the dead: days such as dies rosae, the Day of Roses, dies violas, the Day of Violets, and so on.
Pagina 52 - On the other hand it is certain that during the first century and the first half of the second century the spread of Christianity in Alexandria and in Egypt had Dot been considerable.
Pagina 110 - Pillar, or more correctly Diocletian's Pillar ('), marks the site of the Serapeum, that is to say the temple dedicated to the worship of Serapis. Gratien le Pere and Mahmud...