EGYPTIAN FINDS

Southland Times, Issue 19769, 17 February 1923, Page 5

EGYPTIAN FINDS

CELEBRATED LION’S COUCH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (United Service). LONDON, February 15. A Luxor correspondent states: To-day’s removals completed the first chamber. As two statues are guarding the inner tomb they will be left in position for the actual opening. The principal object brought out to-day was the celebrated lion’s couch. The heavy gilding was astonishingly fresh apd flashed in the sunshine as if done yesterday instead of 3000 years ago. It was built originally of many pieces. It was taken to pieces for removal and reassembling proved that the parts fitted together as perfectly as when made. Minute examination of a small box in the laboratory reveals a tiny figure, apparently a pendant worn on the neck. The fascinating ornament was once broken and carefully mended. Mr Mace, an expert from the New York Metropolitan Museum, has undertaken one of the most intricate tasks of his career—reconstructing the corselet, parts of which were found scattered in various places, a veritable jig-saw puzzle of thousands of minute golden links of different shapes, portions of which are intact and prove quite flexible, though fastened like chain mail.