Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1920 — SHOW GEMS OF PRINCESS DEAD FOR 3,800 YEARS [ARTICLE]

SHOW GEMS OF PRINCESS DEAD FOR 3,800 YEARS

Finest CoHection a Panwutf Adornments Ever Brought Out Jewelry worn by an Egyptian princess of the twelfth dynasty, 1,900 years before the Christian era, was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art It is declared to be the finest collection of personal adornment ever S- «- a Drought out of Egypt. ' When marauders entered the tomb Of -Princess Sathathorlunht at some odd moment in the last years, they took away her mummy and even the elaborate funeral trappings, but overlooked a niche containing the wonderfully wrought ornaments she wore when attending the ancient equivalent tor a first night at the opera. ' Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie, head of an English archeological society, dug the collection out tn 1914 and today it looks as bright as if it had just come from the makers. It consists of a gold necklace Inlaid with a carnelian, a laola lazuli and green feldspar and another pectoral slmilarof the princess; a gold collar of double lion heads, a girdle of gold with rhombic-jeweled heads, a necklace of amethyst with gold lion-claw pendants, armlets and bracelets with gold bars and beads of gold, carnelian and fftrqnoise, and parts of the princess’ jewel box made of ebony with gold and carved Ivory panels. The jewels are Identified as belonging to the princess by her name and the name of her father in cartouches on the larger pieces. Accoramg«custom, tne vairo mulection, a diadem. Since its purchase by the museum the collection has been in a vault in London, stipulation havthere until six months after hostilities closed. vz f