Ancient Alexandria

thumb|upright=1.13|Modern engraving of Dinocrates' proposal for Mount Athos.

the earlier of the two families of New Testament Greek sources

thumb | 220x124px | right Rhacotis (Egyptian: r-ꜥ-qd(y)t, Coptic: ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ , Greek Ῥακῶτις; also romanized as Rhakotis) was the name for a city on the northern coast of Egypt at the site of Alexandria. Rhacotis may have been the name for an earlier settlement on the site of Alexandria or, alternatively, a term meaning "construction site" referring to the establishment of the new city.

Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of Septimius Severus and Caracalla and it probably sank in the 4th century, when it succumbed to earthquakes and a tsunami following an earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean near Crete in the year 365. The site now lies underwater, near the seafront of modern Alexandria, at a depth of approximately .

ancient Greek world chronicle from Egypt, written in the 5th or 6th century AD, preserved on a papyrus located at the Pushkin Museum (inv. 310)