BY Eleanor Early=
“mar win teem, e or blebti scrum:
And whither 'will she go?” '
1.3333qu 5°” W" ‘3“
. are may possibly tulle tr!
to America. And, if she does-At ls do?
cidedly problematic“. youunderstand— .
she will travel on a specially chartered
vessel, guarded by eminent archeologlsts
and a'regimentsrmed to the teeth.
For Nebti Sande-tn is more precious
than. any woman in the world, and a
kings ransom could not buythe least
of her Jewels- Her small person is in a
sarcophagus of priceless alabaster.‘
A few weeks ago the A
Seneferu, ‘
covery of the Princess’
more illllml'tance t6 th
than the wide] a "cientific world,
y exploited unearthing of
mun for Neb
{finesse of the realm fully 1:30:33:
ore _King Tut roamed the land of the
ments and d
robes.
Her great I t
the Two C a bar,
. ‘ nderly into th -
geous coilln, the most costly everefaggh-
ioned. And under ninet f
and limestone they laid layer-fat at rock
they gathered her jewels, her vessels of
bronze and alabaster and all her little
glided furniture. On her casket they
placed'a met or w
with her name. 7 of,“ €015! embroidered
BITS father was one of the gran, I
t.
NEest rulers of antiquity. For cen-
turies after he died Egyptians vener-
ated him as a god; but finally, men.
being fickle, they for oi: '
and hi name ”3.9.1:“mz‘stfig’fidf‘ggj
Ages rolled over his tomb; and now
from the grave or his daughter, use;
like a specter, thd ghost of his fame.
. NOW» 89130131118 to an agreement. ex.
mint between the Egyptian Government
and all foreign Governments, the spoils
of excavationsmada by foreign peoples
shall be placed at the disposition of the
Egyptian Government. The big museum
at Cairo isfull of treasures taken from
the tombs of the ancient forebears of
her citizens. g
Present-day omcials are courteous and
generous, and frequently confer upon'
the archeologlsts many of the coveted
treasures. To’the Americans they feel
a great debt, particularly to the Ear--
vard-Boston Expedition and to Dr. Reis-
ner. Whether or not they will reward
the expedition in stupendous fashion'is
a matter of conjecture.
Nebti lies in the lap of the gods.
She may be taken to Cairo 'or to
America. ,
Until Harvard’s final examinations .in
Egyptology are over, Dr. Reiene'r. will
stay in America. It will'probably be
some time in June before he will sail
for Egypt, and until his arrival .the
tomb of the Princess will remain unex-.
plored. ‘ , .
The other day he received the follow-
ing telegram from the Director General
of Antiquities of the Egyptian Govern-
ment: “Tomb sealed until your ar-
rival. No danger. Lacau.” .
"Good,” ejaculated the" doctor; -“I'd
hate to have them go further without
me.” " p l '
Meantime, barbed. wire 'has been
drawn about the place, audarmedtroops .
patrol the countryside. Nothing has
been touched inside the tomb. , Those
who have seen the. glorious find have
only looked in from the doorway at the
bottom of the ninety-foot shaft. retract! ‘
* ne’Befilltifuls Egyptia
Ema;
About her '
r
Little Miss
Today, in her
gay colors
and with her wil-
lowy grace and
bobbed hair, is
very much like her
sister who watched
the silvery moon
trace palm tree .
.shadows on Egyp-
tian sands before
the Pyramids were
erected .
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to utilize‘ Dr. Reisner’s expez-iernce in
recording this most wonderful of dis-
_coveries, the Egyptian Government is
'quite content to await his return, hoping
that he will find within the tomb papyrus
_that will shed a great light upon the
people who lived and loved 'in Nébti’s
aY- .
We know something of them now, but,
unfortunately, it is very little. There
is a collection of'tales taken from an-
cient papyrus translated from the Egyp-
tian by Prof. Adolph Erman, of Berlin,
and rendered into English by Prof. W.
Flinders Petrie, the eminent English
antiquary. Among them is a Story of
Seneferu, told hundreds of years after
his death. By that ime people had
come to look upon him as a sort of god,
and spoke his name with great awe.
It is supposed to have been related
to King Khufu, otherwise known to us
as Cheops, the builder of the‘ greatest
pyramids, and the man who succeeded
Seneferu on the throne of Egypt. It
was told to King Khufu by his son,
Bantra, and begins:
“One day, King Seneferu, being
wegry, went through his palace, seeking
for a pleasure to lighten his heart, but
found none.“
Despairing, he sent for “the chief re-
”citer and scribe of the rolls,” a wise
man named Zazamankah, and be de-
mended that he arrange some sort of
amusement for his jaded spirits. _
Zazamankah, a resourceful man, pro«
posed a row upon the palace lake,
“with all the fair maidens 'of the harem
of ,thy palace, and the heart (if Thy
Majesty shall be refreshed with the
sight, in seeing their rowing up and
- down the water, and seeking the goodly
pools of the birds upon the lake and be~
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n Princess: Nebti. Sencferu, Soon éto Be _ Raised From - .
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‘ —WHICH?
THEY do say there is nothing new. under the
' sun. Here is a case in point to prove that, with
all our modern civilization and the scarchior
“solnething new,” We are simply aping that which
existed in the long'ago. ' ‘
Although the Egyptian Princess lived 1700
years before the famed King “Tut,” and 3000
years before the dian of the Ghristian era, she
dressed like any modern miss of 1925. Here are
the specifications as noted“ by archeologists' of
.Harvard University and the Boston Museum pf
13°de hair» a “bang” held in place by a
bandcau, a high “ChOkCT,” strings of beads, a
gown that is a “one-piccc-wrap-around” model,
short tight skirt, rouge and powder, plucked
eyebrows, mascaro for the eyes and cal-mine for
the» lips—how’s that for a description of modem
“All in all, women have changed very little
, in the last 5000 years,”rsays Dr. George .A- Reisncr,
f of Harvard University. who helped unearth the
"tomb of the Princess. “Women’s habits down
through the ages-seem to have changed consider.
ably less than men’s.” , 7 . ,
holding its sweet fields and“ grassy
shores.” .
The King approved-this plan most
sincerely, and was soon embarked on
a sumptuous barge, rowed-by W811i!
beautiful girls, each of whom plied an
ear “of ebony inlaid with. gold, with
blades of light wood inlaid With electron.
The maidens were attired in fishnets
as garments. And the King feasted his
eyes on the beauty of the scenery and
the loveliness of their bodies.
"And they rowed down the stream
and up the stream, and the heart of His
Majesty was glad with the sight of their
, rowing."
But one of the girls, raising her
hand to her hair, rent the air with her
cries, “for her jewels or new malachite
fell into the water.” , ,
She was inconsolable and the waters
, rang with her lamentatiohs. Stirred by
the spectacle of beauty in distress, the
King ofi'ered to replace the lost jewel
with another—“a brighter and a'slovelier
thing.” But, woman-like, the girl
wanted her own back again, and no other
would please her. j ' “
Whereupon Seneferu demanded that
Zazamankah, who was a magician too,
it seems, do something to recover that
_ which was lost. '"Zazamankah, properly
mindful of, the power of Egyptian man:-
archs to behead unsuccessful magic
makers, thoughtrearnestly’ in the attempt
‘ empire attained new magnificem and
waxed strong for centuries more, until at -
1 esteemed King-father, you may vengwell"
y.
to remember a charm. Luckily the ap-
propriate formula came to him, and
rising to his feet he muttered “certain.
words of power.” '
They worked‘pcrfectly. The papyrus
reads: ' .
“And he placed one part of the waters
of the lake upon the other,‘ and dis-
covered the jewel lying upon a shard;
and he took it up and gave it unto its
mistress. And the water, which was
twelve cubits deep in the middle,
' reached new to twenty-four cubits after
he turped it.”
The wizard then reversed his incan-
tation, and the piled up waters resumed
their natural level. ,
The tale'concludcs with the statement
that His Majesty spent "a joyful day
with thewhole ofthe royal house.”
And King Khufu, according to the"
papyrus,~was so charmed with the story
as told him by his son that be com-
mended that an ofl'ering of 1000 cakes,
100 drafts of beer and two jars of _
sweetest incense should be prosented
rat the tomb of Séneferu as an od'ering.
It wasrunder Seneferu and his im-
mediate successors of the fourth dy-
nasty that the land became powerful and
rich as never before. It was then that
the huge Pyramids at Giza: were built.
and the marvelous Sphinx. 7 That was
the beginning of what is known in
Egyptian chronology as the Old King-
dom. It was'a wonderful burst of active
ity,and power, which, having spent itself,
gradually Tdeclinedéuntil Thothmes III
, came to. the throne, setting so worthy
an example
for hisarsuccessors that the
lastit crumbled. again, and the scepter
fell fromjthe imposes: hand or Tutenhh-
anlun, last’of‘theliué. ' ‘ V
Nowgth‘at 'you‘know that Nebti‘ Was ,
the daughter ofcalpowerfulgand highly;
wonder. : Vt she looked like,fsndlwhat.ja
. women, have changed
. Nettizfieoetmr 1033!an
. i .,
pearance. She was the wife of Rain-
tep, son of Seneferu and a commander
of infantry in the army of his father.
Nerft and Nehti were sisters-inalaw, you
see, and probably afiected the same
styles. This picture of Nerft is re-
produced from a sketch of the lady
found near the pyramid of Meidoum and
is considered a very good likeness, as
art 3000 years ago Was of high develop- ~ "
ment, and sketching had become faith-
ful portraiture. ‘. .
Nerft must have been a reigning balls.
for her name means “the beauty,” dud,
according to Egyptian standards, also
may very well have been the Pole, Negrl
of her day and age. Her head was
finely shaped,a.- and she carried it high
with true royal mien. Her eyes were
black and flashing, and her skin onlyrra
trifle darker than our owu—though her
lips were too full for our idea of beauty,
and betokened a Negroid strain in has-
ancestral past. She was of medium
height, softly rounded and prettily
formed. ‘ 1
It you will look very closely at her
hair you will see that shp' seems to be
wearing a wig. Now, today the girls
bob their hair, and then buy transfor-
mations to pin over the bob, so that it
will look long again. In Nebtl’s day
they wound their own hair tightly about
their, heads and over it they wore a
false bob—a reversal of the prevailin' 3
mode. Nerft’s‘ own bang shows beneath.
the. artificial bob, which she kept in
place with a bandeau very like the ones
Americanfiappers were wearing a few
seasons ago. Net-ft wore a “choker”
too, and long strings of beads besides.
F‘OR clothes she donned a simple “one-
piece,” a wrap-around model not at
all unlike some ”very ‘xnodern. efl‘ects.’
Across the back it had a'bateau neck;
line, but'the frontjwas V-shaped, and
very’low. Girls" today wear flesh-col.
ored.chiil'on stockings, but Nerft went
them one better. and didn‘t wear any.»
She used popderand rouge and eye.
brow pencil, and manicured her nails
and painted their tips. She plucked her
eyebrows and awentuated» their length
witha line of kohl. Beneath her. eyes
she used a greenish substance very like
‘mascaro, and she cumined her full lips
till they looked like a binding wound.
. “All in all,” as‘Dr.‘ Balanci- ranch,
very little in, the
last5000years.f - '-.
“Bobbedrphair, rouge, earrings, beads
and tig'htekirts appear tobave been in
vogue thousandsof years ago even as
now. ~Women’shabits down throughtho
less than'men’s.”i . ,
Dr. Reisncr declines to specula
. , ti spas
whatmay be foundwithin-gthe tomb: f’.
of
' ' useless,hesays, to speculate.
thing scold
an almost _
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Nebtl Seneferu‘, at the left.- ‘
and. Lady Seneferu, above,
demonstrate beyond shadow of
doubt, says Dr. Reisner, that
the girls who lived in Egypt
5000 years ago bobbed their
hair, wore tight skirts, ear-
rings and beads, and looked
like the girls of today, even to
' the rouge on their lips
At the Boston Museum there is a
statue of a remarkably lovely woman
of whom Dr. Reisner is pal-ti
1 d—tbe Lady Sennouy. A
‘ °21 call her Maude Adams,” he da-
clares. “The resemblance, I think, is
very striking.
“My beautiful lady lived about 2500
B. 0., and unfortunately I can learn very
little about her. She was born, I know.
at Assiout and married the military
Governor of the Sudan.
“1 found her statue standing in the
street outside the entrance to the tomb
of her husband. A gracious figure, with
features that stamp her a very fine lady.
I should like to learn more of my little
Maude Adams; but her bones, I sadly
fear. lie at the feet of her lord and
master. A dreadful fate for so beautiful
a woman.
"Her husband was quite a well-known
gentleman, for the Sudan post was a
very important one, as the trade routes
had to be kept open, and the barbarians
cdnstantly rebelled. He metered in
gold, perfumes, monkeys and dwarfs;
and the little dwarfs be imported be-
came. quite frequently great favorites
as jesters in the courts of Egypt. —
“Men of these days—high-born men
at least—had one legal wife and an
enormous harem, so that their houses
were filled with great numbers of chil-
dren. My poor Lady Sennouy was the
legal wife and prime favorite, I think,‘
of her spouse." .
When the moon hid that night be-
. hind a silver cloud the pair wandered
by the water’s edge. And the waxen
crocodile emerged and devoured them
both! ., . a
“The papyri we have found,” Dr.
Reisner says, “have furnished a collec-
tion of tales suggestive of the Arabian
Nights. The Egyptians thousands of
years ago told a story of Cinderella.
There is a fable suggestive of Inch the
Giant Killer, and another; that severe
ofAlafddin’s Lamp. The story of the
antigen" 7' whogrolled back the waters
is suggestive of the Israelites crossing
thelied Sea. "They are imaginative
tales beautifully, and . quaiutly told. ,
“Tulsa. for matinee _ the story of their
little Giuderella. They called‘her Nitorh
his, which meant ‘the rosy-checked».
“While bathing, _ in‘the‘Nile one day,
no cash flew
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