Sunday 5 April 2020

The tombs of Kom el Shoqafa / Alexandria.


 The name of Kom el Shoqafa dates back to the area where the tomb was discovered, which was famous for making pottery,
The cemetery is distinguished with reliefs, and it is unique, as Egyptian art is mixed with Greco-Roman art. It was carved into the underground rock,
It starts with a spiral staircase that connects to the three floors and the staircase is at lower elevations, then its height gradually decreases until it is almost non-existent near the surface of the earth.

 The bodies of the dead were hanging ropes to the place of burial, and the staircase ends at the first floor with a foyer on its sides, there are two semi-circular gaps in the form of a mihrab, and a seat carved into the rock for visitors to sit, and the foyer leads to a circular room.
To the left of the circular room is the celebration hall, and the room consists of three huge sofas that were used to hold the means upon which visitors lay down at the time they ate food according to the Roman custom.
On the other side of the round, hall are burial chambers, with holes where the dead bodies were placed, and the gaps scattered on the walls were placed with lighting lanes, and on both sides of the burial chamber, there are mixed decorations between Egyptian and Greek art.
The second floor consists of a foyer and around the room, and the lobby has a Roman façade in its upper part. On either side, there is a hole, in which there is a person representing to the right of the dead, on the left his wife, and the two statues except for the heads are carved according to the rules of Egyptian art.
As for the main burial chamber, it consists of three sarcophagi, with Greek motifs, and the main computer over the middle sarcophagus represents the Egyptian embalming process, while on the left and right wall there is an emperor, wearing a double-sided crown standing in front of the altar, the sacrificial offering for the calf Apis,

Isis stands behind Apis, carrying the feather of justice, spreading her wings as a symbol of protection,
On exit from the main burial chamber, there is an Anubis,
There are more than 300 holes in the burial chamber.

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