The remains of the Temple of Queen Bernice: --------------------------------Was  discovered on Tuesday, 19/1/2010 AD, Queen Bernice is the second wife  of King Ptolemy III (246-222 BC). Was the discovery of the temple area  of Kom El-Alexandria and a large cache of statues, bringing together  nearly six hundred statue from the Ptolemaic period in different sizes  and typesDiscovered  the remains of the temple with a length of sixty meters width of  fifteen meters, and extends down the remains of the Temple Street Ismail  Fahmy, and the temple Kmahgr use of lime, which led to the loss of  parts of the stones.As  such, it has been found on a large number of statues representing gods  goddess Bastet fun and pleasure, which was a cat, and that the temple  was built for it in the Ptolemaic period in the current region Kom  bench, which is located within the territory of the Security Directorate  of Alexandria today.Artifacts  found in three places, each one a subject of cache for a large number  of statues of cats and statues of children and women of limestone,  pottery, statues of bronze statues of gods and goddesses Egyptian  faience and terracotta in the very beauty, and in her lap Horus the  child "Harbuaqrat" and the god Ptah, the god of Memphis .Deposit  base of the temple discovered due to Berenice, a seventh and a deposit  found in Alexandria from the Ptolemaic period, and returns its  importance in it especially the first Temple of Ptolemaic to the goddess  Bastet represented in the form of a cat is detected in Alexandria,  which is a continuation of the worship and reverence for the goddess  Bastet, which slave the ancient Egyptians, and  built a famous temple in Tel extensor old Eastern Province, and was of  the most beautiful temples of ancient Egypt, as mentioned by Greek  historian Herodotus.Were  also detected a pedestal of granite stone from the reign of King  Ptolemy IV (222-205 BC). And inscriptions in Greek, the ancient of nine  lines, indicating that the statue was of a person senior Court of  Alexandria, this inscription dating to the memory of victory in the  battle of Rafah in the  twenty-second of June 217 BC, which won the Egyptians and the soldiers  of the ancient Greek world, from five different communities on the  Seleucids, who were in control of the ancient Levant, and that the  soldiers have logged the document in love with Egypt and defend it.The  detection of the archaeological collection of architectural elements of  old such as water tank 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 of the earth, and the remains of stores and streams of water  from the stone, and the remnants of Bath is, the number of pieces of  pottery dating from the century BC, and pottery pieces are imported from the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea Rhodes.The  pottery discovered chronicling the oldest layers, which revealed that  she is older than the founding of the city of Alexandria in 332 BC. M. It  is believed that the discovery provides strong evidence on the royal  quarter in Alexandria since its inception and is one of the most  important archaeological discoveries in the history of the city and it  has been the transfer of archaeological finds to the stores for the  restoration and preservation for presentation Tvia.
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