The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-09
BUST OF
 EGYPT's QUEEN IS BROUGHT ID LIGHT
Beautiful Statue of Tutank- hamen'S Wife Found in Tomb of Ancient DeS-
 ert Ruler
By ARTHUR wEIGALL

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 LUXOR, Egypt. Feb. S.-At noon to- day the crowd around the tomb of Tutankhamen was just dispensing. after its bathed vigil when native carrier appeared at the mouth of the sepulcher carrying one of the most astonishing objects which has yet been brought out of this astonish- Ing tomb. It was an almost life size bust of a queen, presumably Akhna- toms daughter, Tutankhamens wife, exquisltely carved in wood over which Is a thin coating of plaster pasted in a life-like manner.
 On her head she wears a crown which was specially designed by Akhnaton for hls queen. Nefertiti, this belng painted yellow, to repre- sent gold, and at the forehead is a royal cobra. The face and neck are colored that brownish yellow which is the conventional hue for the fem mine skin in Egyptian art, and the eyes and curving eyebrows are paint ed black. The arms are intentionally cut off sharply below the shoulders, like those of sculptor's models. and the body-over which is painted a plain white robe. fastened at the rfeck-ends at the waist, the breast being only slightly indicated.
 Great Dignity
 The features of the face show that soft, langourous expression which Akhnatons artists loved to portray. The lobe of the ear is pierced as though to receive a jewel. The mouth smiles slightly in a tired, rather bored manner, as though the ennui of existence had become a matter almost for jest, and the eyes are sleepy and enigmatic. The finely chis- eled, naughty nostrils and clear-cut, full lips, give an impression of great dignity, but the beautiful curve of the cheek and a slight sug- gestion of girlish plumpness under the chin, are natural and most en- trancing.
 This is very great work of art face full of mystery, elusive and yet serene, and as it was carried up the white, burning road to the tomb used as workshop. one was over WISlluSu @ltu tHOuBHl or lHOSG ldr- off days and of all the beauty that is now forgotten. A dramatic contrast made these thoughts more poignant in the presence at the tomb of several high native officials and the ladies of their households. The latter were in semi European clothes with transpar- rent white veils covering the lower parts of their faces. In the eyes and forehead. however, the upper part of the cheeks and the line of the nose, one could see the same racial char acteristics displayed in the statue of Tutankhamen's queen.
 Queen Had Freedom
 The freedom with which European ladies now go about is a great ad- vance on conditions obtaining when I was last here, few years ago. and is the most notable change l have observed, but it will be long time yet before they regain that perfect freedom they enjoyed when Tutankhamen's beautiful queen smiled upon her Theban subjects.
 This bust of the queen is the fig- ure which has been called by excava- tors a mannikin or dummy of the king. whereon his robes were hung, but actually it is a sculptor's authen- tic model of the queens features, somewhat in the style of those found In the sculptor's studio at Felicia