Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-09-20
EGYPT.

The earliest period Of Egyptian art is
represented by photographs of painted
limestone statue representing the first
Theban period; of wooden statue of
the fourth dynasty, known as the
Sheik-el beled;, Of the great Pyramid Of
Gizeh, built by Khufu (CheOps); Of the
great Sphynx of Gizeh; of the Temples of
Edfou; of the great stepped Pyramid Of
Saqqarah. And by paper impressions
from the Boulak Museum of decoration
in the interior of the magnificent tomb
of III of the Architect, and of the Ptah
Hotel of the fifth dynasty, the reputed
author of the famous book of moral say
ing, "The Papyrus Prisse. Ks z
An interesting photograph is that Of
the head of Thi, the wife of Amenophis
Ill, the eighth King Of the eighteenth
dynasty. Mariette, by whom it was dis
covered, conjectured from the type Of
the face that the Queen was of Semitic
origin. This was partially confirmed by
q scarabeus accidentally acquired by
lady traveller in Egypt, and more re-
Gently December, 1857 by remarkable
find Of cuneiform tablets at Tell-el-
Amarna, in Upper Egypt. These tablets
show that Amenophis III. had dealings
with Hittites, Babylonians, and other
tribes of Mesopotamia. The name of
his Queen occurs on these tablets in the
form Ti-i-i.
Of the Egyptian Book of the Dead or
Funeral Ritual, which consists Of col
lection of prayers Of a magical charac-
ter referring to the condition of the dis
embodied soul, series of original frag-
ments are on exhibition. Egyptian
polychromatic decoration, pottery from
Abydus, and Egyptian cotton are repre-
sented by original specimens. +
The period of the stay of Israel in
Egypt is represented by series Of pho
tographs of the ninteenth dynasty.
There are shown the photographs of the
mummy of Seti l., taken by Professor
Maspero; two reliefs from the Temple Of
Abydus; the masterpieces of Egyptian
art plaster cast of the head of Seti in
the Boulak Museum, and of his son
Rameses H., the Pharaoh Of the oppres-
sion; piece of mummy cloth; photo
graph of the mask of Rameses; of the
profile of his mummy taken by Brugsch
Bey; two photographs of the colossal
Rameses in front of the rock-cut Temple
of Abou-Simbel; photograph of Nefert
Ari, the wife of Rameses; photographs
of the mummy cases of the find at Dayr-
ell Baharee, described in the Century
Magazine for May, 1887.
Two unbroken bricks of rough clay
and chopped straw-the one from the
iomb of an early Pharaoh, the other rep
resenting the building material of the
huts of the modern Fellahin.
SMALLER OBJECTS FROM PALESTINE.
A goatskin water-bag, such as was
used for carrying water or wine through
the desert. They are still used in the
East as well as in Mexico and among the
Fragment of Lebanon marble.
Shells from the Red Sea.
Cone of the fir of Lebanon. .M
sConeof the cedar of Lebanon. a
Fruit of the pomegranate tree.
Seed-pod of the carab tree.
Shrub from the desert of Sinai.
| Lamps such as were used in the early
Christian period from Rome, Ephesus,
Shechem, etc.
COSTUMES.
Costumes are rerepresented by statuettes
Of Sennacherib, Sardanapalus, and of
the latter's wife, showing Assyrian state,
war and female costumes.
Modern Oriental costumes are illus
trated by the dress of an Arab Shereef,
a. Syrian merchant, an Indian, and an
Arabwoman.
| CAST OF THE ROSETTA STONE,
The original of which is of black gran
ite is in the British Museum. The
rosetta stone was discovered in 1893 by
Bousard, a French officer, near St.
Julian, four miles north of the town.
The inscription is in Egyptian hero
lglyphic demotic and Greek, and supplied
the key of the decipherment of the
ancient monuments of Egypt. 1t con-
tains o trilingual version of synodical
act OF the priesthood of Memphis in
honor of Ptolemy ". B. g. 1893. a
| CAST OF THE MoABITE STONE.
i The Moabite stone was discovered on
tho 10Th of August, 1868, by the Rev.
A. F. Klein, German missionary, at
Dhiban, the ruins of the ancient Dibon.
The stone was in the possession of the
Benz Humaydah, o wild Arab tribe east
Iof the Jordan. M Clermont Ganneau
obtained a paper impression of the An
lscription. In the early ypart Of 1859 the
Arabs, considering the stone 50 eagerly
sought after BY Europeans to beYpos
sessed of supernatural power, lit fire
under it and then threw cold water upor
it, breaking it into fragments, which
were distributed as charms among tn,
different families Of the tribes. Gan
neau succeeded in collecting most of tn,
pieces, which, with the help of his pa
Eper impression, were put together, an,
the stone is now set up in the Louvre il
Paris. 4't'h ''eo' 'ft" "a SH4Ai'" .
d The inscription consists iof record o
Mesha, King of Moab, who is mentione'
in the II. Kings, Chapter 8, as having re
belled against Israel Mesha narrate
how he recovered certain fortresses, de
4 scRbes thepublic works which he under
1 took and the DEVASTATED cities which Ii
rebuilt, and gives an account ofpa snh
sequent war against Edomites. Thi
discovery of this inscription was O