The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-09-15

victory of Darius over his tebellious
subjects.
The Assvr;nn series closes with num-
Der of fac-simile and fiat casts of seal
cylinders.
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
-el-beled; Of the great Pyramid Of
Gizsh, built by Khufu (Cheops); of the
great Sphynx of Gizeh; Of the Temple 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 nth dynasty, the reputed
author of the famous book Of moral say
ing, "The Papyrus Prisse."
An interesting photograph is that Of
the head of Thi, the wife of Amenophls
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
scarabeus accidentally acquired by a
lady traveller in Egypt, and more re-
Gently December, 1SSD by remarkable
find of ouneiform tablets ut Tell-el-
Amarna, in Upper Egypt. These tablets
show thnt 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 a col
lection of prayers Of a mngical charac-
ter referring to the condition of the dis
embodied soul, e series of original frag-
ments are Oh exhibition. Egyptian
polychromatio 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 Che
mummy of Seti L., taken by Professor
Maspero; two reliefs from the Temple of
Abydps; the masterpieces of Egyptian
art; o plnster cast Of the head of Seti in
the Boulnk Museum, anl Of his son
Rameses L., the Pharaoh of the oppres-
sion; a piece of mummy cloth; photo
graph Of tho 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
ot Abou-Simbel; photograph of Nefert
Ari, the wife Of Rameses; photographs
Of the mummy cases of the find at Dayr-
el- Daharee, 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
4 gcatskiD 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.
Gone of the cedar of Lebanon.
Fr nit Of the pomegranate tree.
Seed-pod of the carab tree.
Shrub from the desert Of Sinai.
Lamps such as wore 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 ana female costumes.
Modern Oriental costumes are illus
trated by the dress of an Arab Shereef,
i Syrian merchant, On Indian, and an
arab woman.
CAST or THE ROSETTA STONE,
The original of which is of black gran
ite Is in the British Museum. The
rosetta stone was discovered in 1900 by
Bousard, French officer, near st.
| Julian, four miles north of the town
The inscription is in Egyptian hero
| glyphic demotic and Greek, and supplied
the key of the decipherment of the
ancient monuments of Egypt. 1t con-
tains trilingual version of synodical
act of the priesthood of Memphis in
honor of Ptolemy ", 3. c. 1913.
CAST OF THE MoABrTE STONE.
The MoGbite stone was discovered on
| the 10Th of August, 1868, by the Rev.
| 4. T. Klein, German missionary, at
| lohiban, the ruins OF the ancient Dibon.
'Ehe stone was in the possession OF the
Beni Humaydah, wild Arab tribe east
,f the Jordan. NJ. Clermont Ganneau
obtained paper impression of the in
is tho history of the tunnel. While the
excavators (were lifting up)
2. the pick each to his neighbor and
while there was yet three cubits Ito be
broken through the voice Of one
called 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 ~ excavation, the excavators
struck each to meet his neighbor pick to
pick, and there flowed
.. the waters from their outlet to the
pool for the distance of 1900 cubits and
| (three fourthsO
! q. OF u cublt was the height OF the
rock ut the head of the excavation here. I"
Tho work of the excavation must have
been begun simultaneously from either
end by two gangs of workmen. Near
the middle Of the tunnel are two culs-
de-sac, showing that for want of engi-
neering skill the excavators overlapped,