The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-26
find TOMB OF QUEEN
MUMMY or TElE or EGYPT DIS.
COVERED IN THEBEs.
Secrets Hidden for Centuries Revealed
) Coffin and Body lneascd In
Sheets Of GcId--Pricetess
Grown Still on Head.


! London.--Theodorc M. Davis, who
| discovered the tomb of The parents
of the Egyptian queen Teie, has made
another sensational discovery, that Of
the tomb and the mummy of Queen
Tcic herself.
Next TO Cleopatra Queen Tclc was
tho most famous woman Of Egypt
She was the mother of King Amen.
hotef W., the ruler who 1900 years
B. c. plunged Egypt into fanatical
civil war by introducing new form
of religion of pantheistic monothetan
form. This revolution spent It's force
before Moses was born.
The tomb of Queen Teic is in
Thebes, and adioins that of Ramescs
IN. 1t is literally filled with icwelry
and sheets of solid gold which the
priestly desecrators, who, when the
heretical religion had been stamped
out, vented tllcr rage ON tho tombs
of Amenhotef and Teic, had left un.
touched.
Wherever the cxcavators walked
they irod upon fragments of gold
plato and gold leaf There was nc
sarcophagus, but huge cataralquc
which had been torn TO pieces by the
priests, had been erected over the
mummy Of The queen 1t was thickly
plated with gold inside and outside
and engraved with the names and
titles Of Tcic and her son, as well as
with Representations of their adora
iion of tho solar disc, The symbol Of
the religion Amcnhotcf had tried tc
force upon his people.
Tho whole figure of the king has
been destroyed, but that OF his moth
or was allowed TO remain unharmcd
The coffin, with the mummy of the
queen In it, had been carried to the
south side of the tomb. where II lay
upon bier incrusted with gold, sup
ported by four lions, with claws, alsc
of gold.
The woodwork Of the bier, unlap
PLY. has been converted into touch
wood by the action of water. The cof
fin, however, is intact. II is superb
example of the jewelers. work. Tho
wood of which it is composed Is en-
. tjrely covered with a franc of gold
ihlaid with lapis laz,ili, and coInelan
green glass. The inlay work repro.
scnts for the most part a pattern OF
scales. but down the middle runs an
| Inscription from which IL Is learned
that the coffin was made for Tcio by
'lrer son.
~ The mummy itself Is wrapped from
ahead TO foot in sheets Of gold. The
water, which for many years has
,been draining through II, has reduced
iit TO little more than pulp and 1t fell
10 pieces when IL was examined in The
presence of several Psychologists
There were bracelets on the arms q
necklace Of gold bands, and orna
ments OF gold inlad with precious
stones round the neck.
The head was still encirclod by an
object priceless and unique, the i'm
'bcrial crown of the queens of ancient
Egypt 1t Is ut once simply and cx
sduisitcly fashioned, and represents
'thc royal vulturc holding the signel
ring in its talons. while its wings sur
round tho head, fastened tightly be
hind by pin. The whole is OF solid
gold, without inlay or other adyentti
olIs ornament.
1t was diflicIlt to avoid feeling
OF awe when handling this model of
ancient sovereignty which had thus
risen up from the depths of van
ishcd world.
From an artistic point OF view
however, perhaps the finest object
yet discovered in the tomb is por.
trait head Of the queen, which forms
tho cover Of her four canopic Jars in
the place of the heads OF the four
genii OF the dead required by Egyp.
tian orthodoxy. The head Of the
hcrctic queen herself is in Egyptian
alabastcr, with the eyeballs and eye.
brows represented by inlays of lapls
la2u!i and obsidian. The face evident
ly Is a portrait, and beautiful por-
trait IL is. 1t Is that of woman at
once masterful and engaging, but
apart from the lips there is little Of
the Egyptian about IL. The delicate
.subaGuline curve of the nose Is
European rather than Egyptian.
1t Is remarkable how little funeral
furniture was found in the tomb. The
queens burial, however, was not OF
the orthodox pattern. She WAS a