[2] Sergeant.

[3] The Egyptian reliefs upon the walls of Dendereh temple and elsewhere show conventional representations of the Queen which are not to be regarded as real portraits. The so-called head of the Queen in the Alexandria Museum probably does not represent her at all, as most archæologists will readily admit.

[4] This island has now become part of the mainland.

[5] For a restoration of the lighthouse, see the work of H. Thiersch.

[6] Josephus.

[7] The first Ptolemy brought the body of Alexander to Alexandria, and deposited it, so it is said, in a golden sarcophagus; but this was believed to have been stolen, and the alabaster one substituted.

[8] Surely not 200 feet, as is sometimes said.

[9] Some years later, after it had been popularised by Augustus.

[10] Plutarch: Cæsar.

[11] Bell. Civ. III. 47.