Alexandria Municipal Museum
- Alexandria Municipal Museum
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Arabic Matḥif Al-baladīyah Al-iskandarī, also called Greco-roman Museum,
museum of Greek and Roman antiquities founded in 1892 and housed in Alexandria, Egypt, in a Greek Revival-style building opened in 1895.
The museum contains material found in Alexandria itself, as well as Ptolemaic and Roman objects from the Nile River delta, the Fayyūm of Upper Egypt, and Middle Egypt and antiquities from the Pharaonic period from the Alexandria area and the delta. Among the objects in the collection are a cast of the Rosetta Stone (the original was removed to the British Museum) and fine pieces of Hellenistic sculpture, including a large Attic funerary stela of the late 4th century BC. There is a colossal porphyry statue representing an emperor or Jesus Christ, found outside the Attarin Mosque, Alexandria, and believed to be the largest example known in that material. Among the many other objects in the collection are terra-cottas, Tanagra figurines, capitals, pottery, silver objects, and coins.
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