On Tuesday 19/1/2010 mission revealed the Supreme Council of Antiquities, headed by Dr.. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud on, the remnants of the Temple of Queen Berenice the second wife of King Ptolemy III (246-222 BC). Area com Deka Alexandria and cache large statues, included so far six hundred statue of a Ptolemaic different sizes and types, said Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture.He d. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities The remains of the temple discovered so far with a length of sixty meters width fifteen meters, stretching remnants of the temple down the street Ismail Fahmy, and added that the temple use Kmahgr lime resulting in the loss of parts of أحجاره.And he added. Mohammed Abdel-Maksoud, Director General of the effects of Lower Egypt and Prime archaeological mission, which includes eight of ten specialist in restoration, archeology, painting monumental, it has been found on a large number of statues representing the gods Bastet goddess of fun and pleasure, which was representing the cat, and that the temple was built for her in the Ptolemaic period in Current region Kom Deka, which is located within the territory of the Security Directorate of Alexandria.He pointed out that the artifacts found in three places a respective position cache for a large number of statues of cats and statues of children and women of limestone, pottery and statues of bronze statues of gods and goddesses Egyptian faience and terracotta in great beauty, and in her lap Horus the Child "Harbuaqrat" and the god Ptah god of Memphis.He said that the deposit base of the temple discovered dates back to Queen Berenice, a seventh-deposit found in Alexandria from the Ptolemaic period, and returns its importance in as a private first Temple بطلمى of the goddess Bastet represented in the form of a cat is disclosed in Alexandria, which is a continuation of worship and reverence for the goddess Bastet, which worshiped Egyptians the ancients, and built her temple famous in extensor hill, the old Eastern province, and it was the most beautiful temples of ancient Egypt, as historian Greece هيرودت.He d. Abdel-Maksoud, it was detected a pedestal of granite stone from the reign of King Ptolemy IV (222-205 BC). And inscriptions in Greek ancient of nine lines, indicating that the statue was someone senior Court of Alexandria, pointing out that the inscription Dating to the memory of the victory in the Battle of Rafah in the twenty-second of June, 217 BC, which defeated the Egyptians and the soldiers of the world, the ancient Greek from five communities different Seleucids who controlled the Levant old, and that the soldiers have logged document in love with Egypt and defend.And include disclosure archaeological collection of architectural elements as old as the tank of water 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, and the remnants of stores and streams of water from the stone, and the remnants of Bath Old, and the number of pieces of pottery, which dates back to a century IV BC, and imported pottery pieces of the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Rhodes.D say. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud discovered that the pottery pieces chronicling the oldest layers revealed as the oldest of the founding of the city of Alexandria in 332 BC. AD. It is believed that the discovery provides strong evidence for the Royal District site in Alexandria since its inception and is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the history of the city and it was transferred to the stores archaeological discoveries for their restoration and conservation in preparation for submission Tvia.Temple of the detection Queen Bernice second wife of Ptolemy III in Alexandria
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