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The royal palaces

Known · AttestedExistence: AttestedConjectured · Our reconstructionLocation: Never foundConjectured · After an analogy: Alexandrian Painted TombsForm: After an analogyafter Alexandrian Painted Tombs

Never found.

The palaces ran from the Lochias promontory along the Great Harbour, with a private royal harbour and the island palace of Antirhodos. Caesar and Cleopatra were besieged here in 48 BCE.

The evidence: No Ptolemaic palace stands. The style of their interiors is inferred from Alexandria's painted rock-cut tombs (Mustafa Kamel, Anfushi, Shatby), from Callixenus's description of Ptolemy II's festival pavilion, and from Ptolemaic mosaics found on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina site.

Within The Brucheion (royal quarter).

This place through time

  1. c. 297 BCE · Demetrius of Phalerum at Ptolemy's court Known: attested
  2. 283/282 BCE · Ptolemy II sole king; Demetrius disgraced Known: probable
  3. late 48 BCE · Caesar's fire in the harbour Known: attested, disputed

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