Detroit evening times., 1942-01-04
Our Old Friend Tufonkhomen cer+ainIy
Brings Distress TO Those Lions While
Tufhmosis Causes Greet Mortality
Among +he Marsh Birds

NNIEE are now able TO study and understand
W. activity of an anc!ent Pharaohs life
w Today Just how a Pharaoh went hunt
ing which he did very often.
The principal picture this page shows no less
a person than the Pharaoh Tutankhamen who has
aroused perhaps more interest IN modern times than
any ruler Of ancient Egypt because his is the only
unvloated tomb OF a Pharaoh discovered. Here
we see Tutankhamen hunting lions and what
derful Job ho makes Of IT. This picture was found
the curved id of a caSkct IN Tutankhamen's tomb
Tutankhameu reigncd from 1885 20 1850 3 G. and
died when he still youth after little more than
eight years the throne But the artist represents
him driving his chariot fearessly into pack Of hun
cry roaring lions TutanIhamcn shoots his big ar
rows straight into them with deadly effect The
CONSERVATION II the beasts az the craftsmanship Of
the royal hunter is complete They roar and howl
and writhe in their death agonies
The artist uses his brush with admirable skill no
doubt inspired by regard for the hunters rank
Behind Tutankhamen come Nuban fan-bearers
an escort Of soldiers and courtiers in chariots all
painted small out Of respect for the Pharaoh while
vultures looking for dead lions circle overhead.
In the Pharaoh's chariot three large CULVER
fuls Of arrows each destined 10 find It's mark in a
haploss lion The monarch Of the desert stands
chance against the monarch Of the palace.
Another tomb picture shows the Pharaoh Tlth-
MOSS making havoc among the birds Of the marshes
He is painted standing on q wooden plank that has
been laid across his light sklf of papyrus This
presses back the lotuscs and the water-yveeds II
pushes into the marshes Besides the commOner
type OF lotus is clearly the pinktipped variety
so much more rarely depicted His little nude daugh-
ter with sdc-ocE gold earrings and gold collar
accompaucs him ard holds her royal papa by the leg.
Behind the Pharaoh stands his lovely wife IN fes-
tai attu, shown here in a sepaS7te picture the
riEhti the OF royal unguent on her head and
carrying the sstrm rattle and the counterpose
both Of them symbols Of Hathor the goddess of love,
and of fest5I occasions in one OF her hands
The Pharaoh is abou, to launch a serpent-headod
throv-sticE not shown detail OF painting repro
duccd hcrc go The covcv of birds Three herous are
shown as ds.av The large Fat cat which SITS pre-
cauous'y ou t.' papyrs stems and has captured
less Than three birds is masterpiece of ancient
Egyptian AIT The cat was reyered by the Egyptians
and the Pharaohs were pleased 10 be portrayed
with IT,
The birds are af' ready 20 fall to the royal hunter
They kuoa he VIII get them Besides pin-ta ducks
we See geese, Wheatear aid a pair of wagtails
Nests with eggs rest upon the papyrus-heads and
the cbecffulncss ot The scene is enhanced by the
<delichtcy drtyn butterflies. It/
The nscrbuon above tht scene on the original
reads. "rakine recreation seeking pleasant things
and occupying himself with the craft of the Marsh
Goddess hv hu praised of the Lady OF Sport even
hy tic Scribe who keeps account of The grain"