{"id":361,"date":"2010-05-05T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=361"},"modified":"2010-05-05T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:09:27","slug":"archaeologists-in-egypt-discover-ptolemaic-king-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2010\/05\/archaeologists-in-egypt-discover-ptolemaic-king-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists in Egypt discover Ptolemaic king statue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Archaeologists in Egypt said that they have discovered a headless stonework statue more than 2,000 years old belonging to an anonymous Ptolemaic-era king.<\/span><\/p>\n

Statement by the Supreme Council of Antiquities says an Egyptian-Dominican team made the finding at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Archaeology chief Zahi Hawass says the well-preserved statue may be among the most gorgeous carvings in the ancient Egyptian style. He says the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The statue’s height is 53 inches (135 centimeters) and its width at the shoulders is 22 inches (55 centimeters).<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexandria was the bench of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic Dynasty, which ruled Egypt for 300 years, until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Archaeologists in Egypt said that they have discovered a headless stonework statue more than 2,000 years old belonging to an anonymous Ptolemaic-era king. Statement by the Supreme Council of Antiquities says an Egyptian-Dominican team made the finding at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria. Archaeology chief Zahi Hawass says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-excavations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}