The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-27
A REMARKABLE MUMMY.

Pentemenon, a Monarch Who Lived
2.500 B. c., as He Appears To-day.
Two most extraordinary Egyptian
mummies We're exhibited by e. Dulauf
at the rooms of the MaryIebone Anti
quarian society in the Marylebone road.
One If them-they both having been dis
covered in Lower Egypt in the course
of the recent campaign-was remarka-
BILE for its size and extraord nary
weight. On it's head was crown COM
posed OF copper with a gold covering
shaped in pieces resembling plates and
buttons, having decorations Of leaves
and fruits. On the case containing the
body were painted figures resembling
those Of the zodiac. A nearly undeci-
pherable Greek inscription was also on
it. Between the folds of the dress was
found piece of papyrus, with an in
scription which gave the name of the
dead monarch as Pentemenon.
The mummy in its wrappers weighed
one hundred and sixty pounds Its
length was six feet one inch, the head
was abnormally large, and the Shout
ders very broad. Next the dress was
found an outer cloth covered with
paintings and hieroglyphics, which de-
noted that the original was one of the
royal house of Egypt some twenty-five
hundred years 3. C. Newt came more
wrappings, and then a close garment of
samite. fastened around the neck by a
sailors knot. Beneath this again We're
some finer bandages, like napkins.
Next came four Egyptian tunios, of
kind Of linen, with sleeves and woven
-, fx. 4 70,
the body at the neck and the ankles by
some stuff Of bltumlnous nature.
Next came bandages placed lengthways,
from the head to the feet, with cross
bands; four large pieces of linen came
next, rolled round and round the body.
The sixth envelope was formed Of trans
versal bands of yellow color, from the
bitumen in which they had been soaked.
After this fifteen similar wrappers
Next, an envelope saturated In black
bitumen and. finally next to the skin,
thin shirt Of the finest linen. The toes
were wrapped up separately, the arms
and hands were laid straight down
alongside the body.
The mummy was male, and looked
about forty-five years old. The length
was five feet nine inches. The breast
and part of the abdomen were gilt over.
The body was filled with a black bal
sam. No MS. was found. The legs had
been covered in black baIsam. The I'M
rolling Of the body took three hours, and
no less than twenty-eight hundred
square feet of linen were taken off it,
The hands were long and perfect the
fingers well made with Gilbert nails;
the ears entire, and the nose, which had
been cut open when the body was en-
balmed, in order to extract the brain, a
little deformed. The face looked all
most alive, and the hair was perfectly
preserved, very fine, and-what is unu-
sual in Egyptians of the pure breed-a
little curled. On the left side, bel wv the
ribs, was an opening by which the bal
sam had been introduced into the body.
Under the cloth which covered the face
below each eye, and on the BAN of the
cheek, 4 gold plate was found. with the
representation OF an eye and its lids.
over the mouth, and fastened by a gold
wire run through and behind the tee
was another plate with picture or rep
resentation of tongue placed perpen-
dicularly to the closing of the lips.
which were fas shut and secured by
wires.-Public Opinion.