Death's Head Hawkmoth (II)

[11jun17] 227\365 (phone, laser prints, charcoal, collage)

FULL FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvO50ofwqI8

‘Still Life with a Glass of Beer and Nuts’ (1645).

Oil on canvas by Georg Hainz  (circa 1630–circa 1700).

Nationalmuseum

©Philomena Famulok

The catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (meaning “Mound of Shards”) is a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, Egypt and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.

The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funeral cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Due to the time period, many of the features of the catacombs merge Roman, Greek and Egyptian cultural points; some statues are Egyptian in style, yet bear Roman clothes and hair style. A circular staircase, which was often used to transport deceased bodies down the middle of it, leads down into the tombs that were tunneled into the bedrock during the age of the Antonine emperors (2nd century AD). The facility was then used as a burial chamber from the 2nd century to the 4th century, before being rediscovered in 1900 when a donkey accidentally fell into the access shaft.

Sascha Schneider

Ein Wiedersehen