Hypnos

*Life is a bitch and Death is her sister,
Sleep is their cousin, what a fuckin' family picture.*
—Lil Wayne, *6 Foot 7 Foot*
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This is my laser scan of the [Skulpturhalle Basel's](http://www.skulpturhalle.ch/) cast of the British Museum's 1st-2nd century AD bronze head of *[Hypnos, the god of sleep](http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/bronze_head_of_hypnos.aspx)*.

In 1909, when he was on his way back from a tour of Syria, T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") passed through Naples and [wrote](http://www.amazon.com/reader/0393026841?_encoding=UTF8&query=hypnos) a friend "The bronzes in the Naples museum are beyond words." He paid a Neapolitan bronze foundry eight francs for a flawed freehand copy of the Hypnos head now in the British Museum.

Lawrence loved his Hypnos copy, writing "nothing, not even the dawn--can disturb me in my curtains: only the slow crumblings of the coals in the fire: they get so red & throw such