Graeco Roman Museum

Graeco Roman Museum, museum of Greek and Roman antiquities in Alexandria, Egypt, that was founded in 1892. It is housed in a Greek Revival-style building that opened in 1895 and that was expanded in subsequent decades.

The museum contains material found in Alexandria itself; Ptolemaic and Roman objects from the Nile River delta, Al-Fayyūm of Upper Egypt, and Middle Egypt; and antiquities from the pharaonic period from the Alexandria area and the delta. Among the objects in the collection are a cast of the Rosetta Stone (the original was removed to the British Museum) and fine pieces of Hellenistic sculpture, including a large Attic funerary stela of the late 4th century bce. There is a colossal porphyry statue representing an emperor or Jesus Christ, found outside the Attarin Mosque, Alexandria, and believed to be the largest example known in that material. Among the many other objects in the collection are terra-cottas, Tanagra figurines, capitals, pottery, silver objects, and coins.