The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-02
GOT OLD SECRETS
| FROM A TOMB
RICH AND QUAINT TOILET ARTI-
Giles FOUND IN TOMB.
Varieties of Existence Entombed
with Body for Thousands of
Years.
LIFE AND DEATH LUXURY

The pot of pomade for the COM
plexion is one of the many interest
ing relicks of long ago in the latest
collection of Professor Flinders
Petrie. who, with students OF the
British school of Archaeology in
Egypt. has Just returned from a six
months excavation work in the ruins
OF Thebes and Memphis. says a Lon
don letter TO the Washington Post
II belonged TO an Egyptian woman of
Quality who died in the seventeenth
dynasty, some 1850 years ago. A
complete outfit OF toilet requisites
was buried with her. The mummy of
the owner lies close by in the room
at University College, where the col
lection is being shown.
The pomade pot IL delicately
wrought in alabaster The prepare
ton has endued its thirty-six CEN
turtles of burial remarkably well, and
stu has a fresh perfume. IL has not
yet been submitted to analysis.
The painted coffin in which the
mummy was found is hewn from a
sycamore trunk. Inside the coffin
was a wooden pillow or head rest
inlaid with ivory and ebony. two
beadwork pouches. and a bead fly.
whisk The toilet articles were con-
tanned in a beautiful woven basket
Besides the pomade, Il held pots OF
preparation for painting the eye
brows. a carved horn to hold oil, and
blue marble dish resembling a pin
tray.
The Egyptian woman was rich in
iewelry. On the mummy were found
ornaments OF gold weighing in all
half a pound, and an exquisitely
made glrdle of electrum (gold and
silver alloy.) The gold ornaments
include a heavy necklace. four
bangles. and pair Of earrings nearly
two inches In diameter. Buried
with the Egyptian woman were also
several interesting specimens Of pot
terry. chair and footstool. cakes Of
bread. and dishes of grapes, dates
and other fruit.
A dried dome palm fruit shows
plainly the marks OF a child's teeth
A needlework outfit. which also
formed part of the Egyptian woman's
property. includes a bronze cutting
out knife. a sharpening stone. two
flints and a ball of thread. The
tomb was found al Thebes In a val.
ley to the north of the tombs of the
kings. and is probably the richest
entire burial that has been brought
from Egypt The coffin was only
placed under a foot or two of stones
and earth.
The collection contains numerous
other items OF interest to Egyptolo-
gists. including foundation deposits
of temple at Thebes. built by tho
high priest Nebunnef, under
Rameses H., various bronzes. speci.
mems of delicate ivory carving. cop
per ringlets from statue. a sandal
pans of blue and green color, scarabs
and Jars of Greek forms of the
Seventh century B. c., with Greek
monograms of owners, showing that
probably a Greek garrison was resi-.
dent there at that time. There are
also two colossal negro heads, an
alahaster female figure of Mediterra-
mean style, and two collins with
mummies.
The great result of the years
work at Memphis appears to have
been the discovery Of the palace Of
King Apries-the Pharaoh Hophra of
the Bible-who was contemporary
with Jeremiah. Hitherto no palace
had been known in Egypt beyond the
town of Medinet Habu and some por-
tons of rather early date. Now
there is great building about 400
feet long and half as wide preserved
30 ten or fifteen feet high. The
stone-lined halls, of which seven re-
main, were over forty feet long
while there were brick halls nearly
as large. the walls of which were
about fifteen feet thick.
Some good bronze figures of gods
were found. but the one supreme
piece was a fitting Of a palanquin of
solid silver a pound in. weight. deco
rated with bust of IIat-hor with a
gold face. OF the finest workman
ship of the time of Apries and proba-
bly, unique, 1t remained in the Cairo
museum.