Chatby Necropolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Iris Fernandez Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 29, 2026 01:37 PM
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History
Understood to be the oldest necropolis in Alexandria that dates back to the Ptolemaic period and is located in the modern Chatby area of Alexandria.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/941771942
31.211358, 29.917027
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Center of Visible Remains of the Chatby Necropolis (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Chatby Necropolis (English, modern)
- Chatby Necropolis located at Alexandria (unspecified date range)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Pleiades
Points were digitized on June 19, 2012 by hand in Google Earth using 5.2.1.1329 (beta) at an "eye altitude" of 600 ft.
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, Damian Noah Dimitrov, and Tom Elliott, 'Chatby Necropolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/941771942> [accessed: 17 October 2026]
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