New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-10-08
Reported Discovery of q Manuscript OF the
Time OF David.

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IN the year 1859, a Theban mountaineer discov-
ered ina hill called by the Arabs Shin-ab- b-el-Geurna
4 tomb cut out of the rock, in which he found d
mummy case With gold apread-eagie and golden
asp; also tablet OF green stone. a box with four
canppi of Oriental alabaster, and on the side of
magnificent mummy, with a gilded mask and
large gilded scarab@us of porcelain its breast,
most remarkable papyrus scroll, five feet long and
ten inches vide written in the finest hieratic and
hieroglyphic characters. The four jars were sold
to Lord Henry Scott young Engiishman. The
mask was purchased by captain who purchased
and sold antiquities at Thebes, and was transferred
by him to the French consular agentat that place.
and may be now either in his possession or in the
museum at Paris, The papyrus, as also the scara-
bmns, the tablet, and the eagle, came into the
hands Of George A. Stone Esq, of Roxbury, Mas
sachusetts, then travelling in Egypt.
Mr.. Stone sent copies and photographs of the
papyrus to several Egyptologists in New York,
who attempted its translation, but failed, because
they were only acquainted with ghampoon's sys-
tenn. Finally, MR. Stene sent Photographic copy
to Professor g. Seytiarth Of st. Louis, Missouri,
having been informed that this gentleman had pub.
lished in the years 1883 and 1886, the key to the
Egyptian literature and to the ancient astronomical
Inscriptions and monuments. This savant, the
author of the :. Summary Of Recent Discoveries y
etc., New York, 1887, and large number of other
works, has just published the transations and eXe
plantations, requested Of him, in the Translatons
of the Academy of Science OF st. Louis for the
year 1859, tpp 52f-559l with sixteen Photographic
plates The biography u Horssbe 1.-THE sword Of
Horus1 is to be found in the first column Of the
papyrus, and we learn by 1t that he was the com.
manding general ef Pharaoh Shishak l., who slew
the last king of Manetho twenty first dynasty, and
suppressed by his captain the rebels in five differ
ent provinces Of Egypt.
This Shlshak I, the head of the xxiid dynasty,
lived, according to Manetho and the monuments
one hundred and twenty four years previous to
Shishak II. the eonqner0r of Jerusalem q Kings
ll:40-l la:25) in the fifth year of Rehoboam, (a94
d. % Horsebe was consequently eontem-
porary of Saul and David, and the papyrus in
question has been written about the year 1850 B.
O., or three hundred years before the foundation
Of Rome, and Is at present two thousand nine hun
dred years old The residue of this precious
manuscript contains a new religious book of the
ancient Egyptians. and begins with the following
sentences The Book OF Hymns for singing the
glories Of Him who made fsis-[the sarfhJ~the
glories Of that invisible Being who made Osiris
lhe sun the originator of the life OF his race:
the originator Of the life of his nation and She
oragmafor OF the circle of the solar year with its
seasons; the builder Of the sacrhcial anadrupeds
pelng convenient for him in his house Of light and
ofaerad by his father, the Lord Governor; the
originator otfhe priests for his race in the firn,a-
/ sneht. and teF Aaen, the Lord 4 who made Meni-
the moen]- originator Of the flax.seed. of her
own sex, and Of spinners and weavers for the
races ~ both the regions of Egypt. and also foY
ne makers Of cloths for the people i who made
the most holy one, the apetheosed mighty chief