Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-01-15

Another portrays tall, beautiful, peas
ant women who bear offerings.
The great temple relief of all was
found between the hall of columns
and the holy of holies. 1t shows the
king himself with apron and lions
tail as insignia of his high rank. He
wears headdress of feathers and
horns-the mark of a god The jack
al-headed god Anubis steps toward
him, bringing him the sign of life.
In smaller relief Ne-woser-re Is
pictured with raised club Staying
group of men whom he holds by their
hair.
In digging out the chamber of stat
ues the explorers Unexpectedly came
upon splendid painting, It was in-
tended to show a door set into the
solid wall. The colors laii on by
hands and brushes of which there has
been no vestige left on earth for 1000
years were bright and glowing, shin
ing out of their long-kept darkness IN
to the light Of today as if they were
still wet. But scarcely had the sun
streamed in before they began to pale.
Fortunately the expedition numbered
skillful painter among its members,
and he succeeded in making true
copy in full size of the ancient work
Of art.
THE HIGH PRIEST s TOMB.
Then the diggers reached the tomb
of tie high priest Jen-em-Jachwet.
After breaking out the first stone the
Europeans peered in and for the first
time in IS centuries human eyes looked
upon the cofins Of the priests OF Ne
woser-re. The tomb had been too
small for the last eofins and the ham
dies had been sawed from the ends
before the stones were set in place and
sealed. Those cuts of the saw were
clear and sharp, just as they had been
left on that day of burial.
Here great finds were made. Large
ships of the dead were on the cofins
that they might be used for the voy-
age into the under world. There
were the great stone Jugs that had
contained water to refresh the shades
on their journey. The last gifts Of
friends and carved wooden statuettes
of the domestics and slaves were scat
tered through the tomb.
Now came the question as to wheth-
er or not the mummies in the stone
cofins would be found in any sort Of
preservation. If they were they
would be the first mummies Of that
period that ever had been found IN
condition to bear removal to Europe.
The whole party gathered around ca
gerly while the wooden nails were
drawn carefully from the coffin ofthe
high priest and he was found in itJust
as he had been put to rest when Egypt
was young.
CONTENTS OF THE CoFFINs.
.Jachwet was wrapped in a
long brown linen shroud. A colored
mask of linen and gypsum lay on his
face. The mask had a narrow side
beard and long chin beard and the
eye had been mad, larger by stresks
of vermillion A big wig, parted in
the middle, was colored bright blue
to initiate lapis-lazuli, showing that
the dead man had already become a
god, for the ancient Egyptian gods
had hair of lapis-lazuli.
Under the head was a wooden rest.
1t is shaped exactly like the wooden
pillow that that is used to this day in
the Sudan. By his side lay little
wooden statue representing him. Ac-
cordiDg to Egyptian belief this statue
was to do the dead mans work for
him IN the under world.
A woman was found next She
was Sat-Nofer, the favolite of the
king. In that gorgeous life Of 4,5OO
years ago no doubt she had been beau
tiful and clothed with rich apparel
and surrounded with loveliness and
luxury. But in death she was not to
lie as lies the true queen or her mas
ter. Placed in rude coffin Of thin
wood, she was put away in a bare
chamber far from the habitations Of
the royal dead. Hardly any gifts
were laid with her. Instead, as if in
irony-a grim joke that was to wait
for inconceivable time to make Its
point-they laid by the coffin of the
poor, forgotten courtesan bronze
mirror without handle and little
stone used for grinding rouge.
As the digging progressed from this