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A cache of pottery vessels found in Alexandria

A cache of pottery vessels found in Alexandria
 
Ministry of Antiquities found a Cachette containing hundreds of pottery vessels, dating back to the Greaco- Roman, Coptic and the Islamic eras, during restlration works carried out in the inner garden of the Greaco Roman museum in Alexandria known as the "Patio"

Dr. Mostafa Waziri, General Secratery of the Supreme Council of Antiquities announced and added that after finding the cachette, a committee from the Alexandria Antiquities headed to the museum to archaeologically inspect the cachette

According to the history of the the Museum, Ayman Ashmawi, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector pointed out that these pots were most probably hidden archaeologist “Alan Rowe” and the museum's employees in the garden of the museum’s garden during the World War II, between 1939 and 1945, to safeguard and protect them from looting or being destroyed by repeated bombardments during the war.
But, the hiding process was carried out quickly without being documented or recorded on the museum’s list.

On her part Nadia Khadre, Head of the Central Department of Egyptian, Greaco and Roman Antiquities, said that the cachette includes of a collection of pottry of different sizes and shapes. among them the Hidari vessels, to bury the dead’s dust after burning their corpses in the Greek period. In addition to a large collection of liquid vessels of various shapes and sizes, colored pots, and a large number of dishes and tableware from the Greaco Roman and Byzantine eras