Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-09-18

| pOlycnrOmatlc uecOratlOn, pottery from
Abydus, and Egyptian cotton are repre-
sented by original specimens.
The period of the stay Of Israel in
Egypt is represented by a 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, aud 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
Raneses in front Of the rock-cut Temple
OF Abou-Simbel; photograph of Nefert
Arl, 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
tomb 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
Eskimo.
Fragment OF Lebanon marble.
Shells from the Red Sea.
Cone OF the fir of Lebanon.
Cone Of the cedar Of Lebanon.
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 represented 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,
q Syrian merchant, an Indian, and an
Arab woman.
CAST or THE ROSETTA STONE,
The original of which is of black gran
ito is in the British Museum. The
rosetta stone was discovered in 1890 by
Bousard, a French officer near st.
Julian, four miles north of the town.
The Inscription is in Egyptian hero
glyphic demotio and Greek, and supplied
the key of the decipherment of the
ancient monuments of Egypt. 1t con-
tains a trilingual veraon of a synodical
act Of the priesthood of Memphis in
honor Of Ptolemy ", b. c. 1893
CAST OF THE MoABITE STONE.
The Moabite stone was discovered on
the 10th OF August, 1868, by the Rev.
A. +. Klein, German missionary, at
Dhiban, the ruins of the ancient Dibon.
The stone was in the possession of the
Benz Humaydah, q wild Arab tribe east
of the Jordan. NJ. Clermont Ganneau
obtained paper impression of the in
scription. In the early part OF 1869 the
Arabs, considering the stone so eagerly
sought after by Europeans to be pos
sessed of supernatural power, lit fire
under 1t and then threw cold water upon
it, breaking 1t into fragments, which
were distributed as charms among the
different families of the tribes. GAN
neau succeeded in collecting most of the
pieces, which, with the help OF his pa
per impression, were put together, and
the stone is now set up in the Louvre in
Paris,
The Inscription consists Of q record of
Mesha, King of Moab, who is mentioned
in the II. Kings, Chapter 3, as having re-
belled against Israel. Mesha narrates
how he recovered certain fortr.sses, de-
scribes the public works which he under
took and the devastated cities which he
rebuilt, and gives an account of sub
sequent war against Edomites, This
discovery Of this inscription was of
great Importance for the history of the
development Of the alphabet,
THE SLOAN INSCRIPTION.
The Sloan inscription was accident
ally discovered In June, $780, The in
scription is engraved on a recessed tablet
cut in the wall OF the tunnel few yards
from its lower end. The latest restora-
tion and translation is as follows:
1. (Eehoi5 the) excavationl Now this
Is the history Of the tunnel While the
oxcavators (were lifting upl
2. the pick each to his neighbeF and
while there was yet three cubits ito be
broken Through :. the voice of one
sailed to his neighbor, for there was IAN
excessD in the rock on the right. They
rose up they struck on the west
side Of the az excavation, the sxcavators
struck each to meet his neighbor pick to
pick, and there flowed
8, the waters from their outlet TO the
pool for the distance of 1000 cubits and
(three fourthsN
q, Of cubit was the height of the
rock at the head of the excavation here"
The work of the excavation must have
been begun simultaneously from either
end by two gangs of worLmen Near
the middle Of the tunnel are two culs-
de-sac, showing that for want OF engl-
skill the excavators overlapped,
and the inscription is evidently intended
to place on record the way in which the
difficulty was remedled. This interpre-
tation of the inscription was first sug-
gested by Shapiro, the well known anti
quarian and forger Of Jerusalem.
1t is generally agreed that the the in
can not be earlier than tho
sighth century or later than the sixth.
n 10 halfavad Inv aonna that a. laionoa e.,