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A court cut in the rock, sphinxes, and painted horsemen above a door.
- 1The court of tomb 1
- 2The sphinxes
- 3The painted lintel of horsemen
- 4The altar
The Alexandria Governorate says the Mustafa Kamel tombs lie on Roman Camp Street in Rushdy and are four tombs of the Ptolemaic period. El Watan (2018), citing the Ministry of Antiquities’ website, reported that they were found by chance in 1933–1934, that all four were cut in the rock, and that they date from the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC.
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In a study published in 2025, Mona Haggag writes that there is general agreement that the Shatby cemetery holds Alexandria’s earliest burials, followed by several tombs in the Mustafa Kamel cemetery.
In the court of tomb 1, as photographs show, stand half-columns, sphinxes on pedestals and an altar, and above one doorway a painted lintel shows horsemen.
