The remains of the Temple of Queen Bernice: --------------------------------Was
discovered on Tuesday, 19/1/2010 AD, Queen Bernice is the second wife
of King Ptolemy III (246-222 BC). Was the discovery of the temple area
of Kom El-Alexandria and a large cache of statues, bringing together
nearly six hundred statue from the Ptolemaic period in different sizes
and typesDiscovered
the remains of the temple with a length of sixty meters width of
fifteen meters, and extends down the remains of the Temple Street Ismail
Fahmy, and the temple Kmahgr use of lime, which led to the loss of
parts of the stones.As
such, it has been found on a large number of statues representing gods
goddess Bastet fun and pleasure, which was a cat, and that the temple
was built for it in the Ptolemaic period in the current region Kom
bench, which is located within the territory of the Security Directorate
of Alexandria today.Artifacts
found in three places, each one a subject of cache for a large number
of statues of cats and statues of children and women of limestone,
pottery, statues of bronze statues of gods and goddesses Egyptian
faience and terracotta in the very beauty, and in her lap Horus the
child "Harbuaqrat" and the god Ptah, the god of Memphis .Deposit
base of the temple discovered due to Berenice, a seventh and a deposit
found in Alexandria from the Ptolemaic period, and returns its
importance in it especially the first Temple of Ptolemaic to the goddess
Bastet represented in the form of a cat is detected in Alexandria,
which is a continuation of the worship and reverence for the goddess
Bastet, which slave the ancient Egyptians, and
built a famous temple in Tel extensor old Eastern Province, and was of
the most beautiful temples of ancient Egypt, as mentioned by Greek
historian Herodotus.Were
also detected a pedestal of granite stone from the reign of King
Ptolemy IV (222-205 BC). And inscriptions in Greek, the ancient of nine
lines, indicating that the statue was of a person senior Court of
Alexandria, this inscription dating to the memory of victory in the
battle of Rafah in the
twenty-second of June 217 BC, which won the Egyptians and the soldiers
of the ancient Greek world, from five different communities on the
Seleucids, who were in control of the ancient Levant, and that the
soldiers have logged the document in love with Egypt and defend it.The
detection of the archaeological collection of architectural elements of
old such as water tank from the Roman era, from the third century AD
and a group of private wells to save water depth of 14 meters below the
surface of the earth, and the remains of stores and streams of water
from the stone, and the remnants of Bath is, the number of pieces of
pottery dating from the century BC, and pottery pieces are imported from the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea Rhodes.The
pottery discovered chronicling the oldest layers, which revealed that
she is older than the founding of the city of Alexandria in 332 BC. M. It
is believed that the discovery provides strong evidence on the royal
quarter in Alexandria since its inception and is one of the most
important archaeological discoveries in the history of the city and it
has been the transfer of archaeological finds to the stores for the
restoration and preservation for presentation Tvia.
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