New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-14
EGYPTIAN COFFIN IS
PUZZLE TO MUSEUM
Waits Return from Berlin
of Woman Who Is TO
Read Hieroglyphics.
SARCOPHAGUS Is
PLACED ON VIEW
Weighs Sixteen Tons and was
Made for Some IF. F. t.. II IS
Said-Other New Exhibits.

Until Miss Caroline Ransom. the Metro
poiitan Museum Of Arts authority on
Egyptian hicroglyphics. returns from Der
lin the museum viii not be able TO read
inscriptions on an Egyptian sarcophaenS'
which has been presented 20 the institu-
ton by Edward :. Hardness Il trustee
The Sixteen-ton granite sarcophagus' or
about go Il. c.. is in the main han 10 the
NORTH of the Fiftr avenue entrance II Is
known that II wa meant for person OF
great prominence. blucstocking. mem
Der OF First Family IL Egypt
The sarcophagus. according 10 Edward
Robinson, the director. IS one OF the most
important Of It's kind in the world. there
being known only two others one az
Cairo and the other at Vienna u may
take long 10 d,ciphcr the inscriptions
Miss Ransom was Sin months in learning
the secrets Of one sercophagus.
Miss Ransom mad 90 go TO Berlin at one
time with Photographs Of the inscriptions
of q sarcophagus before she was able 10
deciphcr il. The reason. therefore, II was
explained Yesterday. was the possession
10y the Royal Museum in Berlin OF the
dictionary 10 such inscriptions
So great was the weight Of the sarcoph-
sgus that the museum had TO get assist
ance 10 put il in place. II Vas necessary
also 10 place additional supports under
tho floor where il rests II is eNhioited
In two sections the top being too heaN!
TO place it on the lowe part of it,
Besides the sarcophagus Mr.. Robinson
= rsrf =.
They included stone relief, Madonna
10y Pietro Lombardo, and pendant IN
the form Of the ia Bird. Of gold and col
orcd inlav of the 18th 10 the 10Th Egyp-
tan dynasty. Tire ia Bird was an anony-
nous gift in memory OF J. Picrpont Nor
gan.
Edward D. Adams presented 10 the mu-
scum q silver plaque issued by the NJ
mismatic Society in honor of Mr.. Nor
gan. Portrait Of Young Woman" by
Charles Jarvis. was presented by Mrs. j..
II. Blauvel, and Portraits Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Conant." by William Dun
lap. were given by John A. Church.
In sculpture there were several acquisi-
tons. These included a marble bust OF
Daniel Webster. by Thomas Ball, the gift
Of the sculptor's daughter, Mrs. William
Couper The bronze statue, woman
al Her Toilet" by Jane Poupelet was
purchased by the museum. II received
much notoriety lately when rejected by
the JUDGES of the academy exhibition. II
WAS Mile PoUpelets duck which mystic
riously disappeared from the exhibition.
II was returned mysteriously few days
after
MANY additions to the collection OF
Egyptian antiquities we're announced, rep
resenting purchases and gifts and mate
rial excavated by the museums expeoi-
ton
Mr.. Robinson announced officially yes
terdav. as was told exclusively in The
Tribune recently. that the Morgan art
treasures would not be placed on exhibit
ton until February II had been intended
TO open the exhibition in January. but
there were unavoidable delays.
An exhibition Of Chinese paintings re-
Gently purchased by the museum will be
placed on view January 2S. following an
illustrated lecture by Or. John c. Fergu-
son. Of Picking.
4 lecture by Dr. Wilhelm r. Nalentiner,
the first since hc became curator OF dec
orative arts, will be given February :.
Professor Charles r. Richards, director
of Cooper Union, will lecture January y
on French furniture OF the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. II will be Illus
trated with lantern slides.
The January bulletin Of the museum is
in the nature Of a memorial number to
George A. Hearn Many reproductions Of
paintings lie gave 10 the museum are