quarter

Kom el-Dikka

Known · ExcavatedExistence: ExcavatedKnown · ExcavatedLocation: ExcavatedKnown · ExcavatedForm: Excavated

A late Roman public quarter in the city centre with a great bath, a small theatre with marble seats, porticoes, houses and lecture halls, excavated by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology since 1960. The earlier Villa of the Birds with its mosaics lies here too.

The evidence: Excavated and published; open to visitors.

Within Alexandria.

This place through time

  1. c. 430–610s CE · The late schools teach Plato and Aristotle Known: attested
  2. c. 450 CE · The lecture halls of Kom el-Dikka Known: excavated
  3. 1960 CE · The Polish mission begins at Kom el-Dikka Known: excavated

In the show

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Sources
  • G. Majcherek, "The Late Roman Auditoria of Alexandria: An Archaeological Overview", in T. Derda, T. Markiewicz and E. Wipszycka (eds.), Alexandria: Auditoria of Kom el-Dikka and Late Antique Education, Journal of Juristic Papyrology Suppl. 8 (Warsaw, 2007) 11–50