WONDERS FROM TOMB.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1923, Page 5

WONDERS FROM TOMB.

DISCOVERY IN EGYPT. MORE RARE TREASURES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 4, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 3. Interest in Tutankhamen’s tomb exceeds that of any archaeological discovery since Evan’s Cretan finds. Parisian and London dressmakers are utilising the discoveries to popularise mummy frocks, the peculiarity of which is that they are swathed round the body and cling to the legs. Mrs. Asquith is wearing such a frock. • Archaeologists express the opinion that the tnrnb will be found to be of L simple type and not highly decorated like some of the earlier examples. The King will probably be found in a wooden sarcophagus, decorated with pictures of the sky goddess Nut. The Morning Post’s t« ’egram from Luxor describes the chariota’ shrine as a shaped box similar to a Roman Catholic tabernacle and wonderfully carved wooden ushabti, inlaid with gold, which has just been taken from the tomb. The latter is one of the finest art objects in the art chamber. The ushabti is specially interesting, because it is connected ’with Amen worship, though the craftmanship of the figure recalls Telelamarna’* manner, where An.vn worship was established, which was Tutankhamen’s first faith. Thia suggests that Telelamarna was the source* of the fine artistry displays on the tomb. The shrine is two feet high and a foot square, and has a carved top recalling the early hum of the Egyptian cultivator, when Pharaohic architects conceived shrines for gods and modelled them on primitive huts. The shrine, which is made of wood, embossed with gold and decorated with hunting scenes, is an object without parallel in Egyptian archaeology, though at first it was believed to -be an ushabti case. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association. [The ushabti (answerer) is a mummylike figure deposited in the tomb with the mummy, and generally bearing inscription* from “The Book of the Dead.”]