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Location:

  • Egypt, Alexandria
  • geo:31.204124,29.917509
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=101548

Annotations

What is now called the Alabaster Tomb is the remaining core of an impressive third-century BCE monumental grave. It is a modestly-sized rectangular chamber constructed out of large polished blocks of Egyptian alabaster - hence the name. The appearance of the outside has been wildly speculated upon: either the chamber was covered by a tumulus, sheathed by roughly-hewn stone blocks, or fronted by a temple-like facade.1

References

  1. ↑M.S. Venit, Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theatre of the Dead (Cambridge 2002) 8-9, 191.


Relevant museums

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

National Archaeological Museum, Athens

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana - Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Allard Pierson Museum

Het Allard Pierson Museum is het archeologisch museum van de Universiteit van Amsterdam.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Nearby

Alexandria, gate

Hellenistic gate

Alexandria, Jewish Cemetery

Alexandria, Jewish Cemetery

Alexandrina, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Large library with several museums.


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