This institution once refused to return items, for which it paid a fifteen-talent guarantee, during thereign of "the Benefactor".
This institution once refused to return items, for which it paid a fifteen-talent guarantee, during thereign of "the Benefactor". The possessions of this institution were catalogued in the Pinakes composedby Callimachus. The "charakitai" were employed at this facility, which had a "daughter" institutionknown as the Serapeum. A fifty-man synodos organized this institution in 283 BC at the order ofPtolemy Soter, who founded it as part of the larger Mouseion. In the 4th century AD, it was closed bythe Coptic Pope Theophilus, and it was later burned, possibly by invading armies under 'Amr ibn al-'As. For 10 points, name this institution which collected seventy thousand papyrus scrolls as the centerof Hellenistic learning.
This institution once refused to return items, for which it paid a fifteen-talent guarantee, during thereign of "the Benefactor".
Library of Alexandria [or Mouseion until it is read]