Alexandria ad Aegyptum again

Extract

In a note in a recent number of the Journal, Sir Harold Bell showed that Alexandria ad Aegyptum meant ‘Alexandria by Egypt’. No one is likely to dispute his arguments in this respect. It is, however, worth pointing out that a piece of evidence from the third century before Christ shows that, in circles closely connected with Alexandria, that city was thought of as ‘in Egypt’. A Delian inscription of that date contains a decree in honour of a Naxian resident in Alexandria.