The Alexandrian Tychaion: a Pantheon?

Abstract

Fig. 1. Alexandria, late-antique city plan of archaeological evidence, incorporating recent geomorphological and underwater results (author, updated with silting detected by N. Marriner and C. Morhange in Earth-Science Reviews 80 [2007] 150 fig. 12, and with revised plans of submerged harbour structures recorded by F. Goddio, "HeracleionThonis and Alexandria, two ancient Egyptian emporia," in D. Robinson and A. Wilson (edd.), Maritime archaeology in the ancient Mediterranean [Oxford 2011] figs. 7.8-7.9).

Defining Rome’s Pantheum

“…242; Thomas (2017), 185 n. 150. 70 On the Agrippan Pantheon:Loerke (1982), 40-55; Thomas (1997), 167-170; (2017), 184-185;Simpson (1997), 169-170 with n. 1;Virgili and Battistelli (1999), 137-154; La Rocca (1999), 280- 283; (2015), 49-78; Wilson Jones (2000), 180-182; (2013), 34-5; Broucke (2009), 27-28; Grüner (2009), 41-67;McKenzie and Reyes (2013), 51-52. Against this, Ziolkowski (2009), 29-39 maintains the earlier argument of Lanciani and argues for a south facing, rectangular Agrippan Pantheon.…”

The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

“… 120 Ps.-Liban., Descriptions 25.6, attributed to ‘Pseudo-Nikolaos’. For this identification of the building described by ‘Pseudo-Nikolaos’, which is usually located in Alexandria (McKenzie and Reyes 2013), see Thomas forthcoming; Harder 2012: 806 rejects the association of Callim., Aetia fr. 110 with a Pantheon at Alexandria. …”