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Illustrations Maps 1. Alexandria 2 2. Environs of Alexandria 3 3. Roman Egypt 4 Plans 1. Excavated portions of Kom el­Dikka 192 2. Housing along street R4, Kom el­Dikka 194 Figures 1. Diocletian's victory column, hill of the Serapeum 2. Graffito of seagoing vessel 23 3. Fort Qayt Bey, Great Harbor 25 4. Obelisks at Caesanon and the "Tower of the Romans," shoreline of the Great Harbor 27 5. Shops and harbor facilities, Philoxenite 39 20 xv List of Illustrations xvi 6. Carpenter with plane. Ivor)' relief. 58 7. Theaterlike structure 63 8. The prefects court. Ivory pyxis. 73 9. David and Goliath. Menorah lamp. 98 10. Ivory medicine box 1 1 4 ­ 1 1 5 11. Isis as the Tyche of Alexandria. Ivory relief. 133 12. Snake­legged god with cock's head. Jasper amulet. 135 13. Isis Phana. Alexandrian tetradraehm of Hadrian. 144 14. Serapis, the patron god of Alexandria. Marble bust. 147 15. Cultic meal in honor of the goddess Isis. Ivory pyxis. 149 16. Lecture halls 156 17. Theophilus and the Serapeum 180 18. Ampulla of Saint Menas 195 19. Reconstruction of House D, Kom el­Dikka 196 20. House D, Kom. el­Dikka 197 21. Saint Mark enthroned. Ivory relief. 2 0 0 ­ 2 0 1 22. Patriarchal succession 246 23. Constantius II ( 3 3 7 ­ 6 1 ) . Bronze ccntenionaHs. 289 24. Zeno (474­91). Gold solidus. 320 25. Linger from chryselephantine statue 330 26. Herachus and his son, Lleraclius Constantme (613­41). Gold solidus. 350 ...

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