ABSTRACT
Among other architectural features which may have originated in Alexandria mention should be made of the segmental pediment, early examples of which appear in the necropolis of Anfoushy dating
113 Alexandria, Tomb I of the Necropolis of Moustapha Pasha, third century BC. Reconstruction of the south wall of the court (after A. Adriani, Annuaire du musee greco-romain, 1933-35, Alexandria)
by colonnaded porticoes. The fourth side may originally have housed a stoa. Proculus does not seem to have modified the Hellenistic building to any extent as it still retains its slender Doric columns, their lowest third faceted, and the upper two-thirds fluted. The fa9ade of the building in fine isodomic masonry is pierced by two doorways, each with a tetrastyle Doric portico both on the outer and inner sides. At the time of Trajan the stoa was replaced by a basilica (fig. 115) with two rows of plain unfluted columns dividing it into a nave and two aisles, with an apse at the end. The overall appearance of the complex cannot have been very different from what it was in Hellenistic times and reflects the conservatism of the region.
