At the side of the platform there was also a basin, which was used for purification.
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Meow is sleeping calmly.
I am jumping.
Go back a picture, and find the kitty.
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The Memorial of Diocletian (Pompey's Pillar).
The so-called "Pompey Pillar" is the biggest memorial column in Egypt. It is a huge column of red granite, with a total height of about 28 meters and a base diameter of 2.7m. On the upper part at the western side is an inscription in Greek, which reads: "to the most just Emperor, tutelary of Alexandria Diocletian, the invincible, Postumus, the Prefect of Egypt (who erected this monument)."
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Pompey's Pillar is a Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt, the largest of its type constructed outside the imperial capitals of Rome and Constantinople, located at the Serapeum of Alexandria. The only known free-standing column in Roman Egypt which was not composed of drums, it is one of the largest ancient monoliths and one of the largest monolithic columns ever erected.
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There were two galleries at the back of the temple as well cut completely from the rock. In the 1st gallery a black statue of basalt was discovered that dates back to the reign of Hadrian. It represents the God Serapis, in a shape of a bull, and it is now exhibited in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria.
The hybrid Greek and Egyptian god of Alexandria.
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