The effects of Egypt in Alexandria for the Greek and Roman eras
The effects of Egypt in Alexandria for the Greek and Roman eras
(1) Alexandria City
· The engineer Dinocrates of Alexandria planned the Hippodami plan in 332 BC. M
· Dinocrates connected the city of Pharos Island to the Hepta Bridge Stadium and its length is 7 Stadium
The bridge section has two points:-
1- A large eastern port
2- A western port called the port of Oud Al-Hamid
· The lighthouse was built on the eastern road of the island of Pharos
· Alexandria was divided into five neighborhoods
(2) Alexandria Lighthouse
· The lighthouse is 600 feet (135 meters) high.
· The lighthouse was destroyed by an earthquake of 1375 AD
· He ordered the construction of the lighthouse Ptolemy I, built by the engineer Sussenzanus, the father of the lighthouses, from the island of Kendus, and completed its construction by Ptolemy II.
· Abu Al-Hajjaj Yusuf known as Ibn Al-Sheikh Al-Manara described in detail in his book Al-Stupidity Part 2
· In my study of the lighthouse, the scientist Petrsch relied on:-
1- Abu Sir Lighthouse
2- Lighthouse on Roman lanterns
3- Lighthouse on Roman coins
4- Lighthouses of Italy
5- Photos of lighthouses in homes
· The cost of building the lighthouse is 800 talent
· On the island of Pharos was the temple of Isis Faraya
· The lighthouse was erected in the Babylonian style
· The entrance to the lighthouse from the south
· The lighthouse consists of three floors topped by a statue
· The first floor of the lighthouse is a square 60 meters long on its roof 4 bronze statues of Neptune, the god of the seas, and it has about 300 rooms
· The second floor is octagonal, rising 30 meters
· The third floor is round 30 meters high
· A statue from the highest floors rising 15 meters
The lighthouse relied on lighting on the fires emanating from it that resemble stars from afar in the seventh century AD the woman of the lighthouse was its greatest feature and it is said
1- You can see what is happening in Constantinople through it
2. Ships can be burned 100 miles away
3- Produces a large amount of light
· The lighthouse was a contiguous building at a great height of 40 floors
· Asafra lighthouse all Greek - Roman - and Islamic civilizations
· The importance of the lighthouse decreased with the transfer of the capital to Cairo
· In 1994, French archaeologist J-Yves Embro found a few lighthouse blocks still in the harbor's waters.
(3) Mast column
· It is located in a prominent place among the effects of the anger of the hill, the door of his chest in the Serapeum area
· The pole of masts is made of red granite
· The column allowance is a single block with a height of 20.75 m
· Height (from base to column crown) total pole masts 26.85 m
· Name the pole of the masts
1- Pompeii Column
2 - Sari Al-Sawari
3- Theosian column
· It was called the Pompeii Pillar because they believed that a jar was placed above bearing the head of Commander Pompeii.
· It was called the pole of the masts and the mast mast in relation to the high height between 400 columns
· Postomus and me erected Egypt this column as a dedication to Emperor Diocletian, who put down the revolt of Achilles in Alexandria.
· Some pillars were thrown into the sea by Asad al-Din Karaja during the reign of Saladin in 1167 AD
· In 1997, the French Antiquities Mission of Underwater Antiquities found pieces of columns in the eastern port
· On the east side of the pillar base on a Greek inscription, it is mentioned that one of the Alexandrians called Stoor, the son of Twitter, the son of Satheros, erected a statue of Queen Arsenoi, sister and wife of Ptolemy II.
· Mast column stones were brought from granite quarries in Aswan
· The masts are the only memorial column in the entire Egypt
