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Marble plaque, Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt

Marble plaque with Persian inscription on the building and reconstruction of an office for Sultan Qaitbay by Almir Maran Ibrahim Adham, 1226 Hj, and the name of the engraver Bogdady Ibrahim, with floral motifs, Turkish period, 19th century AD, in the Alexandria National Museum, opened 2003, in the former US consulate, a palace built 1926 on Tariq Al-Horreya street, in Alexandria, Egypt. The museum houses collections from Alexandria and Egypt, from the Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Marble plaque with Persian inscription on the building and reconstruction of an office for Sultan Qaitbay by Almir Maran Ibrahim Adham, 1226 Hj, and the name of the engraver Bogdady Ibrahim, with floral motifs, Turkish period, 19th century AD, in the Alexandria National Museum, opened 2003, in the former US consulate, a palace built 1926 on Tariq Al-Horreya street, in Alexandria, Egypt. The museum houses collections from Alexandria and Egypt, from the Pharaonic, Hellenistic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods. Picture by Manuel Cohen