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The exedra with seats
ἐξέδρα
Known · AttestedExistence: AttestedConjectured · Our reconstructionLocation: Never foundConjectured · After an analogy: Exedrae of Delos and OlympiaForm: After an analogyafter Exedrae of Delos and Olympia
Never found.
A recess with seats opening off the walk, for lectures and disputes.
The evidence: Named by Strabo. Its form, a curved or three-sided stone bench, is a reconstruction after surviving Hellenistic exedrae and, for scale and seating, Alexandria's own later lecture halls.
Within The Mouseion.
This place through time
- c. 25–20 BCE · Strabo describes the Mouseion and names no library Known: attested
Drawn after
- after The auditoria of Kom el-Dikka, Alexandria (5th–7th century CE) Some twenty excavated lecture halls with stone benches in a horseshoe on three sides and a raised seat for the teacher. They are Alexandria's own teaching rooms, but late antique, not Ptolemaic; a reconstruction of an earlier seated recess can borrow their scale and arrangement and must say so.
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