Now · Today: the Afterlives · 1847–1848 CE

A story of the 1840s: the Library's book bin

Legend · Told story

Scholars of the 1840s hail a granite block inscribed "Dioskourides, 3 rolls", found in Alexandria, as a storage bin of the Library.

What the evidence supports: Only a small part of it is hollowed out; Bagnall shows it is almost certainly a statue base. No piece of the Library's furniture has been found.

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Sources
  • R. S. Bagnall, "Alexandria: Library of Dreams", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 146.4 (2002) 348–362 354