ARCHAEOLOGY. 



The Mommy of an Anonymous Prince, In the 



more particular examination of the royal mum- 

 mies found at Dayr-el-Bahari there was discov- 

 ered the body of a young man of between twen- 

 ty-five and thirty years of age, to which no in- 

 scription of any kind was attached. Instead 

 of being embalmed in the usual way, the body 

 had merely been dried by some skillful pro- 

 cess, without removing any of the internal 

 organs, and had been covered with some fatty 

 and caustic mixture; and the whole attitude 

 of the corpse and the expression of its face 

 went to indicate that the unknown person had 

 died in extreme agony. M. Maspero thought 

 at first that the case might have been one of 

 the embalmment of a living man, but medical 

 men were of the opinion that a case of poison- 

 ing was indicated. Miss Amelia B. Edwards 

 has suggested the possibility of a connection 

 between this case and the great Palace-con- 

 spiracy directed against the life of Rameses 

 III, of which an incomplete record is given in 

 what is called the Judiciary Pupyrus of Turin. 

 Among the forty high officials and the ladies 

 implicated in that conspiracy, were one Taia, 

 supposed to be the queen, and a young man, 

 her son, described as Pentaura, who is also 

 called by another name. This young man, 

 supposed to be a prince of the royal blood, 

 suffered death in expiation of his crime; and 

 M. Le Page Renouf has pointed out that the 

 expression in the Turin papyrus describing 

 his death as well as that of thirteen others, 

 signifies that he died self-slain. 



in Ancient Egyptian Romance. M. Maspero, 

 while excavating the tomb of one Sennotmou 

 near Thebes, discovered a piece of inscribed 

 limestone containing a complete version of the 

 story of which the Berlin papyrus contains a 

 part, and a fragment in the British Museum 

 the last lines, which has been translated by 

 him as " Les Aventures de Sinouit," and by 

 the late 0. W. Goodwin into English as the 

 " Story of Saneha." The tale is supposed to 

 be older by many centuries than the time of 

 Moses. Of the story in the Berlin papyrus, 

 the beginning is wanting; and this is supplied 

 in the present copy. In the former copy, the 

 hero, Saneha, appears flying from the wrath of 

 his sovereign, and taking refuge with the Sati, 

 or Asiatic tribes northeast of the Gulf of Suez, 

 but nothing is given to show the nature of the 

 offense he had committed. The newly dis- 

 covered copy informs us that he had accident- 

 ally overheard a secret of state. According 

 to M. Maspero, the purpose for which the 

 stone containing the story was buried in the 

 tomb, was to give the double of the deceased 

 a source of entertainment in perusing this, one 

 of the favorite stories of classic Egyptian lit- 

 erature. By breaking the stone, it was slain, 

 and its double passed into the other world, to 

 keep company with the double of the deceased. 

 The breaking was not done without causing 

 some damage to the text. A few of the words 

 are chipped off, bnt the lacunas could be filled 



without difficulty. An historical point of some 

 importance is established in the opening lines, 

 in which the date of the death of Amenemhat 

 I, in whose dynasty (the twelfth) the advent- 

 ure is supposed to have happened, is given as 

 " in the year thirty, the seventh day, the sec- 

 ond month of Sha-t." Besides this story, and 

 the bodies which were those of an officer of 

 the reign of Rameses IV and his family the 

 tomb contained a complete set of funeral furni- 

 ture ; the measuring implements of the de- 

 ceased, two funeral-sledges, chests filled with 

 food, and pottery of various kinds. 



Miscellaneous Explorations in Egypt. Gen. Gren- 

 fell, who is in command of the British frontier 

 force at Assouan, has discovered on the west- 

 ern bank of the Nile a series of fine rock-cut 

 tombs ranged, like the grottoes of Beni-Has- 

 san, along an artificial terrace, more than half- 

 way up the face of the cliff. The oldest tomb 

 dates from the sixth dynasty, and others are 

 of the twelfth dynasty. All are richly paint- 

 ed in the manner of the early tombs of Lower 

 Egypt. The largest, which is of the sixth dy- 

 nasty, measures 140 feet by 40 feet, and con- 

 tains eighteen round and fourteen square col- 

 umns. Another tomb, which is of the twelfth 

 dynasty, and consisted of two halls supported 

 on square columns and connected by a long 

 corridor, contained some remarkabe funerary 

 statues, or Osiride figures, in baked clay, and 

 sixty stela3. These tombs are supposed to 

 form a part of the hitherto undiscovered ne- 

 cropolis of the ancient frontier city of Abu or 

 Elephantine. The tomb of the sixth dynasty 

 was approached trom the river- side by a flight 

 of rock-cut steps, of which the remains still 

 exist. 



Greece. Archaeological Division of the Kingdom. 

 The kingdom of Greece has been divided by roy- 

 al decree into eleven archaeological districts, for 

 each of which an inspector of antiquities has 

 been appointed, with authority. The remains 

 discovered which have a local interest are to 

 be placed in the collections of the district, 

 while those having artistic value, or which may 

 be important for the history of art, will be 

 transferred to the Central Museum at Athens. 



Discovery of Archaic Statnes at Athens. The ex- 

 cavators of the Greek Archaiological Society, 

 working under the direction of Prof. Kavva- 

 dias, while digging to the southeast of the 

 Erechtheum, came, at the depth of from seven 

 to ten feet below the surface of the soil, upon 

 six statues of Parian marble and a number of 

 fragments. The statues had heads, but were 

 without feet, and represent female figures of 

 somewhat over life-size, clad in rich garments, 

 with a broad diadem, or stephane, surround- 

 ing the hair. They differ from one another, 

 but still may all represent the same goddess. 

 The dresses are represented as done in very 

 careful folds or plaits, which may be consid- 

 ered conventional, and indicating an archaic 

 period of art, but which Dr. Charles Waldstein 

 suggests may portray an actual style of dress- 



