Evening star., 1923-02-26
BY the Associated Press

To visitors yesterday afternoon. Sew
eral hundred persons have inspected
The tomb since the inner chamber was
opened. Carpenters are busy saving
lengths of heavy timber. with which
the whole shaft will be filled.
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ty Cable to The Star.
LUNOR, Egypt. February 26.-De-
spite the appalling Interruptions of
The last week, Mr.. Lucas and Mr. Mace
managed to do Il lot of work in the
workshop in the Seti III tomb and it
Is now possible to give a number of
details of various beautiful objects
from the tomb of Tutankhamen before
they are finally packed, to reappear at
some probably remote date in the Cairo
Museum
The shop itself is not more than
eight or nine feet wide, mere square
tunnel driven into the hillside, the
walls OF which are the usual yellowish
whlte' covered with large unpainted
hsures in incised relief. They reflect
the light well, and for the first twenty
or thirty feet the light is good enough.
-Nfter that, however, as you penetrate
the heart of the HILL the light fails.
and close inspection of any article
Is only possible with the use of an
electric torch, for there is no electric
installation. Down both sides run lines
"f tables, or larger objects, in orderly
: array, with narrow pathway down the
middle.
Pieces Puzzles Together.
The table nearest the light on the
puzzles. 1t was here he labored over
the disintegrated fragments Of the
hlnEs robes and deduced the facts
already communicated of the king S
!, S,,1,
size of the collarette, etc. 1t is now
spread on the same table and is even
more intricate conundrum than the
kings corSelet, and it is astonishing
toward a solution of the collar. Ex-
cept for piece of the back it has
been reconstructed and shows a very
rich pattern of concentric rings and
faience of deep blue turquoise and
red and yellow.
The body of the corselet is made of
wedge shaped, or more accurately
pear-shaped links of faience laid on
gold. Below the collar and let into
the body of this truly royal fabric
resembling chain of mail is a
superb design stretching across the
which King Tutankhamen is being
introduced by the hawk headed god
Horus to the great Amen. The whole
thing is extremely effective, and
when it has been properly treated to
bring out the colors it will be as
beautiful thing as is to be seen in
any museum.
Thrones Beauty Restored.
Immed edia tely beyond this table is
he famous throne and none could
have believed how marvelously. un-
> der expert treatment. the brilliance
of the original colors has been re-
stored.
When first examined the exposed
fleshy parts of the figures of the king
. and queen on the back were supposed
! to be carnelian, but it is now seen to
| he of semi-opaque glass of glorious
deep sang de boeuf red. The queens
: headdress. of the finest inlaying of
brilliant royal blue. is magnificent.
All the colors stand out with the
same vivdness and the modelling of
/ the king and queen with the sun
! above shooting down its rays, each
ray ending in a hand, according TO
the well known sign, is very good
Significance of Statue.
(what the correspondent here de-
4 scribeS is remarkable, and 1t is almost
equally remarkable that he does not
point out its significance. The sun
above shooting down its ray, each end
ing in a hand" is a representation or
Aten the Sun-disc god of the hereto
faith established by Khunaten Amen
, hotep WI, the fatherin-law Of Tut
/ auk hamen. 1t was this faith that
Tutankhamen abjured. to restore the
! old Amen faith. at the same time
: changing his name from Tutankhaten
TO Tutankhamen The throne found In
, the tomb. it would now appear, is that
on which he sat as a "heretic" king,
{ at the hereto capital, khutaten. and
not that he occupied at Thebes at the
time of his death in the orthodox
Amen faith. That this throne was
permitted to exist after the hereto
, faith had been abandoned, and even
: more, that it, and not his Amen"
( throne, was buried with the king, is
n fact which leaves room for ex-
/, plantations that might enlarge our
slender knowledge of the history Of
this king. 1t is also curious that
/, figures of the hated hereto king
respondent further on, should have
. been allowed to go into the tomb
On the reverse of the back of the
throne is a boldly modelled tier of
uraeii or cobraS crowned with sun
discs and impressively lifelike.
Work of Preservation.
ON the opposite side of the pathway
beyond a couple of tables with COW
cred bottles and paraphernalia used
in the work of preservation lies
spread on another table a delightful
collection Of smaller objects. I have
mentioned before q piece of jewelry
found lying huddled inside the shrine
containing the pedestal from which
thieves had evidently stolen
statuette. This piece Of jewelTy is
now found to be a very charming
necklace of stout vari-colored beads
of different materials with a large
pendant admirably carved and show
ing the king being protected or
raressed by some unidentified divine
figure which is feminine. but like
1Iorace's Muller Formosa" ends in a
fish's or snakes tail.
With It is box the size Of a small
ish pounce box. perhaps for some cos
lnetic, shaped in the form of swans
body with a curved neck. The ma
terial is white, probably alabaster,
Egyptians in those days know of
black-necked swans?
Other Articles OF Beauty.
On the same table lie a large gold
scarab already mentioned and a
smaller but still 1argish blue one
which Is a beauty. On the under side
rhero Is no cartouche or instructions.
cxcellently carved with the legs
neatly tucked under it, Again on
rhe Same table lie two little charm
like figures Of King Khunaten, which,
as previously suggested, his daughter,
9 r>utankhamen's wife, may have worn
or treasured. The figures are squat
ting with the knees up and a hand
10 it's mouth. The larger of these has
been cleaned and is found to be made
OF beautiful deep blue glass, while
1he smaller apparently is of extreme
ly fine grained limestone, so like
ivory that the average person at
casual glance would pronounce it a
japanese netsuke. These, with a
bronze snake inlaid with gold, make
up the select company on this fasci-