Archaeological site · Egypt
Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa
مقابر كوم الشقافة
Roman-era underground catacombs in Alexandria whose reliefs blend ancient Egyptian and Greek funerary art.
Where it is
31.1785, 29.8930
Why go
Kom el-Shoqafa is a Roman-period burial complex cut below ground near the Serapeum hill in Alexandria. It combines Greek-style catacomb burials and triclinia with a chapel and a hall where mourners held funerary banquets. The paintings and carved reliefs mix Egyptian and Greek religious imagery and artistic conventions in the same scenes. The ministry calls it the best known of the necropoleis that make up most of Alexandria's surviving ancient monuments.
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