SOLOMON'S WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 18, 22 January 1929, Page 7

SOLOMON'S WIFE.

IN WONDROUS TOMB.

Mommy Of Moti Maris Found

By Excavators.

SCBOLL TELLS TKAOIC BTOBY

(Coiled Service.)

LONDON", January 21.

Tlic Cairo correspondent «f tif "Daily Mail" reports that ft loral newspaper publishes a store of a remarkable discovery in Jerusalem. Excavators are reported to hav«« found on Temple Mount, a burial {•lace, the mummy of Moti Maris, King Solomon's favourite wife. The mummy lire in a tin rial chamber s»kl to exeved in majnificcnce even tils', of Tutankhamen. It if filled with objects of nurvdloui> beauty and value. These include a guldcr (tiffin. The body is wrapped in very rich rovcrinjs »ct with precious stones. The finders bear several rings. Tbe bead s surmounted by a crown studded with Mipphiiw, emeralds and |«earls. Buried Iwu'dc the body i« a Hcb'** |arrb:iic!it ktoll, brlirvcd to be in Solomon's writing. In it be extolled hi# wife"* virtues and described her death. The scroll says Moti was an Egyptian and belonged to Memphis. Bbe died, in the 36th year of Solomon's reign and was buried beneath the Palace after having sacrificed herself for her husband and Sivereisn Lord. In recognition of his deep love for Moti and of her loyalty. Solomon, with his ov.n hands, placed on her head a crown the people had presented to him on the 25th anniversary of his accession. The scroll says thct three months earlier Aracnto, Mo'J's father, had come from Kgypt lndca with presents and with a heart full of malice. He endeavoured to remove Solomon and to seiir the country on behalf of tbe Kin? «f Kgvpt. Amento sought to interview Solomon, having previously ordered Moti to put jtoison in Solomon's wine. ~Wlicn Moti entered bearing the cups." says the scroll, "although I noticed thai she was deadly white. I did not suspcct trcachery. Amento did not take a cnj»I raised mine to my lips and Moti instantly snatched the cup and drank. Her father fled from the room. Moti fell uving in my arms."

FINDS AT UR. Most Remarkable Objects Of Sumerian Art. CLEARING A ROYAL TOMB. (Australian and Xi Ties* Awocitii*.| (Ufcflwd 13 booi.) LONDON, January 2L British Museum cxcavators at Ur an: clearing the antc-chambcr of the Boyal tomb where a pit 25 feet square was covered with the bodies of human victim* mostly women, adorned with headdresses of gold and silver and lapis lazuli, far richer than those of the nine court ladies found in tbe King's tomb in 1928. Other discoveries are three gold and silver herps magnificently decorated; two statues of rams caught in thickets the licad and legs of which are of poll, and the fleece of white shell and lapis lazuli. The latter are the two most remarkable objects of Sumerian art yet produced.