“TUT” RESTORED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 181, 5 August 1935, Page 10

“TUT” RESTORED

FHHAT ALL THE KING’S horses and all the king’s men could not flo for Humpty Humpty, experts of the Oriental Institute in Chicago have succeeded in doing for a mutilated statue of King Tutankhamen. They have put it together again, and here stands the figure—bigger, much bigger than life—in the museum of the Institute at the University of Chicago. The heroic, seven-ton, 17-foot statue which has just been placed here has neither crack nor nick to indicate that the sculptured figure lost a nose and a chin, to say nothing of a pair of legs, through tho vicissitudes of the centuries. Sculptors on the staff of the Institute made the repairs. They had as a guide in their restoration a twin statue of King Tut, also mutilated, and other

figures of the period. The two figures of King Tut were found by the Architectural Survey of the Institute, under the direction of Dr. Uvo Hoelscher, in a broad hall of a mortuary temple built by Kings Eye and Harmhab, successors of King Tut. Both of these later kings hud attempted to usurp the statue for them selves, regardless of tho fact that it bore the features of the earlier monarch, the archaeologists state. King Eye, they said, put his own inscriptions upon them, and then King Harmhab chisled off most of Eye’s markings and left his own. But King Tut’s successors did no damage to the statue itself. It was generations later, when the temple was used as a stone quarry, that parts were hacked off. The companion of tho Chicago statue is now in the Cairo Museum.