Greco-Roman Museum Alexandria
The Alexandria Greco-Roman Museum is a state museum in the Egyptian city of Alexandria .
history
The museum was built on the initiative of the Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Botti and inaugurated on September 26, 1895 by the Khedive Abbas Hilmi II and the President of the Museum Committee Johannes Schiess . Initially, it consisted of a five-room apartment building on Rosetta Street (later Avenue Canope and now Horriya). In 1895 they moved into a building with eleven rooms. Additional rooms were added to this near Gamal Abdul Nasser Street. The building has a neoclassical facade with six columns and a gable above, in the tympanum of which the Greek inscription 'MOYΣEION' (museum) can be read. The museum consists of 27 halls and rooms, as well as a garden with sculptures that offer an overview of Greek and Roman art in Egypt.
Stocks
The rooms house thousands of items from the 3rd century BC. BC, including a black granite sculpture of Apis , the sacred bull. Mummies, sarcophagi, tapestries and other objects offer a panorama of the Greco-Roman civilization in contact with Egypt.
Individual evidence
- ^ September 26, 1895, inauguration of the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria
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Web links
Coordinates: 31 ° 11 ′ 57.3 " N , 29 ° 54 ′ 24.7" E