ETRUSCAN RELIC
INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH
Two university professors at\ Zagreb; Croatia, Professor PlotnyikofJ and Professor byouritch, both of whom have done distinguished work in connection with the development of infrared photography, have now made an invaluable contribution towards knowledge of the Etruscaii language.
The two professors have succeeded in making a clear photograph of a famous papyrus in the Zagreb Museum, which contains the longest Etruscan text so far discovered. Only 150 words of the text have hitherto been legible, and expert opinions have differed as to their interpretation. The photograph makes the complete text of 1200 words available for Etruscan scholars, and its final' translation will undoubtedly elucidate many obscurities which have ■so far puzzled them. It is believed, to be a prayer to Jupiter and to have no bearing on the Egyptian mummy of which it forms part of the wrapping-
The mummy, which has been in the museum for over seventy years, is believed to be that of an Egyptian princess who clearly died very young, and the well-preserved reddish-golden curls and perfect teeth point unmistakably to her youth and beauty.
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Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 15
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183ETRUSCAN RELIC Evening Post, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 15
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