Eastern Port of Alexandria -- Ptolemaic and Roman Periods

Key

1. Site of the Pharos Lighthouse;

2. Antirhodos Island;

3. Possible Site, Cleopatra's Palace;

4. Timonium;

5. Ancient Shipwreck*;

6. Royal Harbor?;

7. Third Harbor;

8. Second Harbor;

9. Royal Harbor?;

10. Cape Lochias;

11. Main Passage;

12. Dock?;

13. Dock?;

14. Port;

15. Dock?;

16. Poseidium**;

17. Site of Heptastadion+;

18. Qait Bey Fort++;

19. Colosal Statue@

20. Site of the Island of Pharos;

21. Site of "Cleopatra's Needles";

22. Julius Caesar morred his fleet here;

23. City of Alexandria;

24. Harbor of the Galleys.

*Wreck of a Roman Boat (100 ft. long, and 25 feet wide);

**Possible Site of Mark Antony's Palace;

+Ancient Causeway;

++Built on the site of Lighthouse Ruins;

@May have stood at the foot of the lighthouse.

Orange = Ancient Sunken Lands and Structures;

Stripes = Ancient Reefs.