Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaicpalace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus andCaracalla and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakesand a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the year 365. The site now lies underwater, near the seafront of modern Alexandria, at a depth of approximately five metres (16 ft).
Descriptions of the island were recorded inclassical antiquity by Greek geographers and historians. Strabo described a royal house on Antirhodos in 27 BC and wrote that the island's name ("counter-Rhodes") derived from the island's rivalry with the island ofRhodes. Antirhodos was part of Alexandria's ancient royal port called the Portus Magnus, which also included parts of the Lochias peninsula in the East and the island of Pharosin the West. The Portus Magnus was abandoned and left as an open bay after an earthquake in the 8th century. On the esplanade the explorer Franck Goddio uncovered the remains of a relatively modest (90 metres by 30 metres) marble-floored 3rd century BC palace, believed to have beenCleopatra's royal quarters.
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This is a photo of the area of Alexandria where Cleopatra's
Palace lies.
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| Recreated Image of the Palace |
Picture Source: Collected from Internet
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