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A continuous limestone-paved walk in Alexandria's royal quarter joins an open exedra to a common dining hall; lime plaster is scuffed at hip height, one column base is chipped, and timber dining couches vary in wear. Strabo's sandal soles press flat onto the paved floor, and his staff tip contacts a slab beside his right foot. The exedra's bench is built into the right wall of the colonnaded walk and meets the same continuous paved floor. The dining hall doorway opens directly from the walk beyond the exedra, with its threshold flush to the paving. Each diner rests fully on a couch or stool; each bowl and cup is enclosed by a hand or supported by a tabletop. All six columns rise from visible bases seated directly on the paved floor and support the continuous timber roof edge. Strabo provides a 1.7 m adult comparator; column shafts are about 0.75 m thick and the exedra bench is 0.45 m high. It is late first century BCE, during Strabo's visit: Greek linen tunics, draped wool mantles, and leather sandals, individually worn and folded; limestone paving and columns, lime plaster, timber couches and doorway, terracotta tableware; hand-finished ashlar masonry, pegged timber furnishings, wheel-thrown vessels, simple bronze fittings.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "observational and workaday. 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