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Page 89
... building was com- menced immediately , but the city was not com- pleted until the reign of the second monarch of the Lagid line , Ptolemy Philadelphus . It continued to 89 C 451 receive embellishment and extension from nearly every ...
... building was com- menced immediately , but the city was not com- pleted until the reign of the second monarch of the Lagid line , Ptolemy Philadelphus . It continued to 89 C 451 receive embellishment and extension from nearly every ...
Page 92
... buildings of Alexandria , it commanded a view of the bay and the Pharos . The Lochias formed , with the islet of Antirhodus , the Closed or Royal Port , which was kept exclusively for the king's galleys , and around the head of which ...
... buildings of Alexandria , it commanded a view of the bay and the Pharos . The Lochias formed , with the islet of Antirhodus , the Closed or Royal Port , which was kept exclusively for the king's galleys , and around the head of which ...
Page 95
... buildings . It was so much adorned and extended by the later Ptolemies that it eventually occupied one - fifth of the entire city . It contained the following remarkable edifices . On the Lochias , the Palace of the Ptolemies , with the ...
... buildings . It was so much adorned and extended by the later Ptolemies that it eventually occupied one - fifth of the entire city . It contained the following remarkable edifices . On the Lochias , the Palace of the Ptolemies , with the ...
Page 97
... buildings were granaries along the western arm of the cibotus or basin , a stadium , and the Temple of Serapis . The Serapeion was erected by the first or second of the Ptolemies . The image of the god , which was of wood , was ...
... buildings were granaries along the western arm of the cibotus or basin , a stadium , and the Temple of Serapis . The Serapeion was erected by the first or second of the Ptolemies . The image of the god , which was of wood , was ...
Page 98
... buildings ; and when in A.D. 120 the Emperor Hadrian surveyed Alexan- dria , he beheld almost the virgin city of the Ptolemies . ARBELA A town of Eastern Adiabene , one of the provinces of Assyria , between the Lycus and the Caprus ...
... buildings ; and when in A.D. 120 the Emperor Hadrian surveyed Alexan- dria , he beheld almost the virgin city of the Ptolemies . ARBELA A town of Eastern Adiabene , one of the provinces of Assyria , between the Lycus and the Caprus ...
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Achradina Acropolis adorned Agora Alexander Alexandria altar Amanus ancient Apollo Apollonia Appia Arabicus Arsinoe Artemis Asopus Athena Athenian Augusta Brucheium building built Byrsa Byzantium called Carthage CASPIUM Chersonesus Cilicia columns Corcyra cubits Cyrene Darius Dromus eastern Edin English Miles entrance Eurotas feet formed fortress Forum Gate Greek Greenwich Harbour height Heraclea Hercules hill Horti island Ismenus Issus John Bartholomew Longitude East Marathon MARE Megara Memphis Mesoa Mons monuments Murus Myriandrus N.W. angle Neapolis northern occupied OCEANUS Olympia Ortygia palace Palus Pausanias peninsula Persian Pharos Pinarus plain Pompic PONTUS EUXINUS Port Porta portico Portus Propontis Prytaneum Ptolemies quarter Rhacôtis Rhodus river Roman Miles ruins Salamis Seleucia side Sidon Sinope Sinus situated southern Sparta stadia Stadium statue stood Strabo street surrounded Syracuse Syria Syrtis Syrtis Minor table-land temple theatre Thebes Therma THRACIA tomb Tower town Tyrus Upper City valley Vicus wall Xystus Zeus