The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-23
uNBARTHED IN rHEBEs.
Antiquities Now on Exhibition in
London.

Antiquities Now on Exhibition in
London.
The antiquities unearthed from
! Thebes during the excavating opera
I tons Of last season by Professor Film
/ ders Petrie and Mr.. Quibellwede opened
/ TO public view recently at University
/ College, and there they viii remain, d
! most interesting exhibition, deserving
+ OF careful study, till the 1st of August
1t is a right worthy supplement to that
/ other exhibition at Burlington house,
/ described in these columns on Thursday
lasl. The excavations in and around
the Ramesseum, as indicated at Univer-
! slty College, We're made by MIR. Qulbell
for the Egyptian Research Account;
/ Professor Petrie devoted himself TO the
remains of the funeral temples to the
north and south of that place and ex-
plored no fewer than ten of them, six
! being of the eighteenth and four OF the
! nineteenth dynasties. Incidentally a
j number of tombs were examined.
The results are now Systematically
laid ouI and labeled, and the exhibition
is doubly valuable by reason of the
printed catalogue which has been pre-
pared, and which bears the signature of
( w. NJ. &. P" The time has now ar
rived when it may also be said that
such an exhibition, apart from the his
torical and scientific purpose it serves,
derives interest because it is a link in
/ the chain of Professor Petrie's own life
work. He is Still a. strong man of only
As years of age, and his black hair and
complexion, made olive brown by long
residence in Egypt, only require the
costume of the country to make him an
Arab or the Arabs, whose speech comes
as easy to him as his mother tongue.
The professor, in short, is par excel
! lence, the Psychologist of the day Yet
his work, though il has always been in
the moldy past, has not always been
confined to the cities and monuments
/ of the ancient dynasties. For six years
he quietly devoted himself to mea.sur-
ing and mapping old British earth
works; he published theories about the
return of Judah and Israel, and con-
tribute TO the literature of Stonehenge,
! before, equipped with the best of instru-
ments, he Went to Egypt and surveyed
the pyramids and temples OF Ghizeh.
This was in 1881. and the world knows
how he has been since occupied in
Egypt and Syria. The list of his pub
locations are Qn auctioneers' phraseol-
ogyj too numerous to .particularize, -
and very proud record it all is for a
man in the very prime of life. It may.
therefore, be truly urged that the exhi-
4 bIllon at University College is a con-
tinuation of things attempted amid I'M
told difficulties and done with splendid
success.
Occasionally an uninformed censor
may still be met with who says it is a
shame that Egypt should be looted by
eXcaVatorS and explorers; but such a
/ one can never be made TO understand
that there is no spelling of the Egypt
! ianS in these excellent scientific labors.
Men like Professor Petrie are bound by
the terms of the concessions to deliver
all the royal monuments and hall of
the miscellaneous finds discovered to
the Egyptian government, principally
of course, for preservation in the Chi
zeh museums. This is why many Of the
I most valuable results of last season S
/ explorations are represented by draw
ings, photographs and tracings. The
first room shows the harvest reaped by
Mr. j. E. QuibeH for the Egyptian Re
Seach Account. We have here, besides
a large number of photographs and
! drawings, vases of the twenty-second
dynasty, amulets, seals inscribed frag-
ments of wine and oil jars, and objects
from a twelfth dynasty tomb, such as
wooden figures of a female dancer and
animals. The curious colored drawings
of the ka of dead man adjoining a
tree goddess is by Miss Prize, whose aid
has been enlisted in the production of
other Illustrations.
of the high priest of Karnak, with rails
ed figures, gilt face, and inlaid beard
and on a small table near are the adj
juncts of this burial-amulets, vulture
from the breast, papyrus from the legs.
and the onion and bench of herbs from
between the wrappings, inscribed with
/ the dates of manufacture; there are fur
| Their trial pieces from school of sculp-
ture, ranging from the first lesson with
the Wavy line and Easket to the hui
man figure complete; beads scarabs,
models, blue tiles, and a bundle of dark
/ cinnamon writing reeds found in a
tomb, where robbers of a later day
had left box containing literary papyrl
of the same kind as those brought home
by the Messrs. Hogarth and Grenfell
! from the Fayoum, but in this instance
! in too bad a condition to bear removal
The inner and larger room contains
/ the collection which Professor Petrie
was able to make at the cost of Mr.
Jesse Haworth and Mr.. Martyr Ken
nard. The great fioWless tablet con-
| tanning the sojourn of the Israelltes
in Egypt weighed five tons, and is the
! largest hard stone tablet ever preserv-
ed. Obviously, though it might have
been carried up to Bloomsbury the
! GhiZeh museum was a more convenient
/ place of deposit. The inscription in full
size, however, is on the Cover street
! wall, deplorlng that the people of Is
rael is spoiled; it hath no seed; Syria
has become as weak as the widows of
| Egypt" The tablet. be it remember
! ed, is dated 1900 B. c., and that is
/ hundreds of years prior to Assy1ian
mention of the Israelites. There is an
! other still earlier tablet probably 1,40O
! b. Co. referring to the building of the
city of Thebes. A copy of an unfinished
| tablet-the prize of the collection
| shows the first slletching and red color
! ing of figures and hieroglyphics, and
the professor represents this as having
! been found broken IN for the founda-
| ton of pillar in tn temple of Mere
uptah.
Among the material relics in the Pet
RE collection are an alabaster dish.
| limestone and red pottaries of the
fourth to sixth dynasties, an Assyrian
archer's bronze helmet (676-66S B. c.
and an assortment of iron tools, the
property, it is supposed, of an Assyrian
armorer about that time, and compris-
ing workmanlike saws, rasp, file, chisels
and drills and centerbits. The largest
stone fragment is a Intel of Ramessu
III, bearing cartouches on one side, and
on the other painting of Isis and Neb-
hat adoring the bark of Sokar. The rel
les, great and small, are countless, and
no one studying them. catalogue in
hand, will be inclined to carp at Pro
fessor Petrie's contention in the Con
temporary of May, namely that +'if
We are ever to understand history in
the Bible or out Of it., the pick is our
instrument and the ruin mounds are
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