Worcester daily spy., 1860-09-27
From the New York Evening Post.

DISCOVERY OF A MANUSCRIPT OF THE
TINE OF DAvID.-ln the year 1858 Theban
mountaineer discovered hill, called by the
Arabs Shin-abd el-Gourna, a tomb cut out of the
rock, in which he found mummy-caSe with a
gold spread eagle and a golden asp; also a
tablet OF green stone, a box with four canopi
of oriental alabaster and on the side of mag
nificent mummy with a gided mask and a
large gded scarabeus of porcelain on its
breast, most remarkable papyrus scroll, five
feet long and ten inches wide, written in the
finest hieratic and hieroglyphic characters.
The four jars were sold to Lord Henry Scott,
d young Englishman. The mask was pur-
chased by captain who purchased and sold
antiquities at Thebes, and was transferred by
him to the French consular agent at that place,
and may be now either in lis possession or in
the museum at Paris. The papyrus, as also
the scarabaus, the tablet and the eagle, came
into the hands OF George A. Stone Esq, of
RoXbury, Mass, then travelling in Egypt.
Mr.. Stone sent copies and photographs of
the papyrus to several Psychologists in New
York, who attempted its translation but failed,
because they were only acquainted with
Champollion's system. Finally, Mr.. Stone
sent a Photographic copy to Professor e.
Seytfarth, of St. Louis Mo-, having been in
formed that this gentleman had published, in
the year 1888 and 1885, the key to the Egyp-
tian literature and to the ancient astronomical
inscriptions and monuments. This savant,
the author of the Summary of Recent Dis
coveres," &C., New York, 1857, and a large
number of other works, has lust published the
translations and explanations, as requested of
him, in the TranslationS of the Academy of
Science OF st. Louis for the year 1859, (pp.
527-569,) with sixteen lthographic plates.
The biography of Horsebe (the sword of
Horus) is to be found in the first column of
ht, tI,o
he was the commanding general of Pharaoh
Shlshak l., who slew the last king Of ALanethos
AAlst dynasty, and suppressed by his captain
the rebels In five different provinces OF Egypt.
This Shishak l., the head of the XXIId dy.
nasty, lived, according to Manetho and the
monuments, one hundred and twenty. four
years previous to Shishall IL, the conqueror
of Jerusalem Il Kings IL 40-l4 25), in the
fifth year OF Rehoboam, (945 B. b. Horsebe
was consequently contemporary of Saul
and David, and the papyrus in question has
been written about the year 1850 b. c., or
three hundred years before the foundation
OF Rome, and is at present two thousand
nine hundred years old The residue of this
precious manuscript contains a new reli-
glous book of the ancient Egyptians, and
begins with the following sentences "rhe
Book of Hymns for singing the gIories of Him
who made Isis the earthl; the gories
| of that invisible being who made Osiris
| 1.-THE sun (the originator of the life of his
| race; the originator of the life of his nation,
! anc the originator Of the circle of the solar
year with its seasons the builder of the sac
| ritical quadrupeds, being convenient for him
in his house of light, and ordered by his IA
ther, the lord governor; the originator of the
| priests ior his race III the tirmament and for
Adon, the Lord) who made Meni tive moonl
| 1.-THE originator OF the flax seed of her own