The Roman Theatre - Alexandria This is a unique small Roman theater in the country. The site is still under excavation since 1970 with the discovery of Roman remains including this theater with galleries, sections of mosaic flooring and marble seats for up to 800 spectators. At the time of the Ptolemies, this area was a garden of delights. The theater may have been covered to serve Odeon for musical works. The inscriptions suggest that was also sometimes used for wrestling contest. The theater consists of thirteen semi-circular rows of white marble was imported from Europe. Its columns are of green marble imported from Asia Minor, and red granite imported from Aswan. Each side is decorated with a geometric mosaic paving. Outside the theater, you can see arches and stone walls, brick Roman baths and the remains of Roman houses. It is within the confines of what the new site is installed underwater outdoor museum to exhibit the antique pieces - sphinxes, obelisks, columns and papyrus fragments of colossal statues - output water Mediterranean by the Alexandrian studies Centre team. Near this site, to the firehouse, a Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Bastet (Bubasteion) has been discovered by a team of archaeologists égyptiens9; This temple is one built at the request of Queen Berenice, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes. About six hundred statues, including several in the image of Bastet, have also been discovered.
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