The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-10
NUMBER "a. "a. !

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evident at the first glance that the outer
same date with al those Well-known
statues of the great king which abound
in Egypt. The face Is prominent, in
deed, upon the coffin. The hands are
in high relief, grasping the Osirian
scourge and crook; but the face is not
from the studio of the artists who carved
the walls of Abydus, and designed the
sitting figures of Aboo-Simbel. On the
breast is q legend which includes two
royal cartouches or ovals, with an in
scription in that hieratic or eursive
hieroglyphic writing which is so difficult
to read. The names In the ovals are
easily read, howeveI-ssR Ramessesmer-
Amen,,' in one; ssRaeuser-Ma-Setep-
en-Ra" in the other; but they present,
nevertheless, several features which
make them more like the writing of the
time of Rameses XII. than of Rameses
H. Inscriptions were found on some
of the other mummies, all pointing to q
period when the authorities of the day
"a day long subsequent to that which
had shone upon the Amenhoteps and
the Rameses gathered their bodies out
of their tombs and removed them into
more secret excavation, perhaps with
Ln6 luea " nAihOWuS lbs POI iAnpo II O.-
der to enhance the sacredness OF their
own resting-place; but perhaps, also, on
account of some threatening of invasion
or some impending revolution of q do
mestic kind Such q revolution did
actually take place when Her-Hor, or
Peh- -Hor, the priest of Amen-Ra, as
cended the throne and founded the
twenty-frst dynasty; and we find, ac-
cordingly, the nsme of this same high
priest among the names inscribed on
the mummies. Nor is this all, for
among the other interments in the grotto
of the Lady An, almost all are those Of
the family of the usurper. a5af
We now cross the room and find be-
hind another barricade very different
class of coffins. These contain the re-
mains of the descendants of Her-Hor,
and among those in. particular of Net
zem-Maut, his wife, and of Pe-Netzem,
his successor. Evidently this was the
family burial place. Here is the hea-
then funeral pail, embroidered with the
bearings of Pe-Netzem- Here are hum
dreds Of the little blue images which
abound in every Egyptian grave. Here
are great wigs of ceremony; jars for
| hearts, baskets of dried fruits, alabaster
boxes of very precious ointment, and, in
short, all the appointments of first
class funeral as It was celebrated In the
declining wears of the Theban mon
archy. There are few objects, too, Of
q more personal and pathetic interest.
The young Princess, Isemkheh, at once
the niece and the wife of King Ra-men-
Kheper, is accompanied in the tomb by
| the mummy of her pet gazelle. Near
her is the body of Queen Ra-ma-Ka, her
mother-in-law, who died in giving birth
| to the Princess Mautemhat. A long
string of titles reads like solemn mock
cry on the little mummy, scarce fifteen
inches long, nesting IN the fower-lined
coffin beside her mother. One other
royal or semi-royal parsonage must be
noticed. Zetptah-ef-aneh is q scion of
the old family, brother, possibly, or
cousin of Ra-ma-Ka, who Is known to
have brought strain of the blue blood
of Rameses into the veins of the priestly
| dynasty. The Prince enjoyed, appa-
rently, the favor of the usarpers, who
! put him into one of the priests offices
and assigned him a burial place among
! themselves.
M. Maspero and Herr Brugsch are
about to publish complete account Of
everything, in French, accompanied
with series of photographs. In it win
be found, among other curious notes..
i the height-or rather length-of every
mummy. .Raskenen, It seems, was
among Egyptian Kings like Saul in
Israel He measured SIX feet one inch,
and very few of his descendants took
after him in this particular. Aahmes,
i for instance, his grandson, measured
only five feet six inches, and the great
/ Thothmes III. five feet seven inches.
Thothmes III. approached the stature Of
his ancestor, but Sety I. was not more
than five feet nine inches. It Is salts
i factory to learn that Rameses III. was
| taller than his father, and not like
| Thothmes III. The historical results Of
this discovery are hardly equal to the
archaeological. We have learned much,
no doubt, as to the styles of art of diff
ferent periods. We have also learned
/ something as to the hieroglyphics and
the language. We are able to make q
connected pedigree of the 'spriest-
kings'' who succeeded Her-Hor. But
as to the revolution which placed that
monarch on the throne, as to the truth
or falsehood of the assertion that he
came from the Delta, as to whether or
not the Assyrian invasion which DR..
Brugsch places about the time of Pc
Netzem, ever occurred at all-the dis
covery teaches us nothing.-N. 7. Star.