The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-11-14
STATUE OF TUT'S
AID IN MUSEUM
Grmy Chief of Ancient Kinu
Placed on Exhibition > the
metropolitan at New York.

| new York.-Tutankhame great
army chief, Harmhab, sculptured in
immortal gray granite, has lust been
placed in the Egyptian department of
| the metropolitan museum, where it is
| regarded by Director Edward Robinson
ana MS associates as one of the most
noteworthy accessions of recent years.
furthermore, it comes to the museum
enriched by the romance of the party
NOW working in the VALLEY of the
Kings, for on the very day that mod
ern eyes pierced the gloom in which
Iutankhamen lay, this statue of the
man who played an important part in
tne great kings life came out Of its
hiding to take place once more in the
public view
director Robinson, commenting on
the esthetic and archaeological value of
the statue before representatives of
the press, laid special stress on the
buddah-lfke pose of the figure and the
classical modelling of the face planes.
lie attributed this to the tradition of
art minds working through the ages
rather than chance influences of the
moment
In Good Preservation.
quite as noteworthy is the state of
preservation in which the statue
comes to the museum, for with the ex-
cepton of the loss of the right hand
the material and condition is as perfect
as If 1T had just come from the work
shop OF the sculptor. The other pieces
OF stone that have come from the time
of the eighteenth dynasty show most
plainly the buffeting of $500 years, but
the spirit of new sculpture is strong in
this image of Harmhab
The figure is represented seated with
legs crossed and a scroll of parchment
spread across it's lap. The left hand |
grasps one end of the scroll, while the |
right, missing, very evidently held the |
quill pen, as shallow ink container,
similar to those in the Egyptian depart
ment, rests upon his left knee.
In this pose of a scribe it is quite
fitting that he should be composing
letter to 10th, the letter writer of the
gods and the divine protector, whose
influence obtained promotion for all
who followed a clerical career on
earth. From his involved phrases on
the scroll, which have beA interpreted,
it is gathered that 10th guides him
who is in error and recalls every for
gotten thing. The writer further in
Tokes the good graces of 10th in a
prayer that is engraved around the
base of the statue.
Claimed a God as Father.
Pendant to this prayer there is d
econd, chiefly interesting because by
INVOKING Ptah, god of Memphis, it indi-
ates the finding place of the statue :
tumOr has it that it was under the
alms of Mitrahineh, which cover the
uins of the great temple of Ptah in
he very heart of ancient Memphis. {
ince other recent finds have located
imilar statues near the city gateways t
: is thought most likely that this stood
within the entrance Of
femphis.
1t might be judged from this that 7
[armhab was bit of an egOtfst and
lch was the case, for he claimed as :
is father the god Horus, saying that !
t birth he was equipped with the
rength and complexion of a god.
hen he was still an untaught child r
he form of a god was apparent in him {
all beholders. v
This superb sculpture in many re- G
,ects the finest in the department
mes to the Museum through the gen :
osity of Mr.. and Mrs E. EveFit Macy. 4
no, during the past year. gave the ~
useums the sum of $4,000. The. size Z
this sun tlse donors fixed by giving .