Saint-Marc souffrit le martyre au lieu appelé Buculus ou Bucolio qui était placé sur le bord de la mer au pied des rochers. Ce fut là qu’on déposa le corps du saint et qu’on lui bâtit une église, au midi de laquelle était une vallée qui servait à la sépulture des morts. » ET. QUATREMÈRE, Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l’Égypte, pages 268–269. C’est précisément parce que la légende le désignait comme un ancien cimetière, qu’un terrain était resté libre jusqu’à ces dernières années dans la rue qui de la mosquée dite Nabi Daniel conduit à la mer. Ce dernier faisant presque vis-à-vis à la nef de l’église Saint-Marc, l’assertion de Quatremère se trouve ainsi confirmée
Saint Mark suffered martyrdom at the place called Buculus or Bucolio, which was situated on the seashore at the foot of the rocks. It was there that the body of the saint was laid, and a church was built for him; to the south of it there was a valley which served as the burial place of the dead.” (Ét. Quatremère, Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l’Égypte, pp. 268–269.) “It is precisely because tradition designated it as an ancient cemetery that a piece of land had remained unbuilt there until these last years, in the street which leads from the mosque called Nabi Daniel down to the sea. Since this latter is almost directly opposite the nave of the church of Saint Mark, Quatremère’s assertion is thus confirmed.
This is terrible scholarship at its worst. De Zogheb spent most of his time chasing down the Tomb of Alexander. His likely motivation was that he shared the same given name with the great general. Whatever the case maybe, he is 100% wrong about the location of Martyrium of St Mark. He places the holy site here:
The black line is the walls of the ancient city. How could a scholar in any generation make such gross errors identifying a fucking "cow pasture" inside of the walls of the ancient city of Alexandria? It's just crazy how much lazy scholarship there was in every generation.
