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Manet's Lunch on the Grass [May 9] and his arrangement of the three figures is even more classical than he probably ever suspected. Raimondi's or Raphael's Judgment of Paris is lifted directly from a Roman late 2nd century A.D. sarcophagus or coffin relief of similar subject, which since the late 16th century has been walled up in a prominent place on the garden facade of the Villa Medici in Rome. This sarcophagus relief influenced the work of other artists who saw it before or after its arrival in that garden still much frequented...
CORNELIUS C. VERMEULE Department of Fine Arts University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. sarcophagus...
Sliding Panel. At last Dr. Ghoneim found a granite slab, blocking the corridor and apparently untouched through the ages. Pushing into the chamber behind it, he came on what all Egyptologists dream of finding: an undamaged and apparently unopened sarcophagus. It is 8 ft. long, made of alabaster richly worked with gold and closed at one end by a sliding alabaster panel, through which the mummy must have been inserted. Around it were the portals of many other chambers or passages cut long ago in the rock. They may lead to the tombs of members of a Pharaoh...
...spite of the three-day Moslem Feast of Bairam, Dr. Ghoneim put 80 laborers to work making the underground passageways navigable for visitors. He declared that the sarcophagus is certainly royal, and that it probably contains the golden mummy case of the Pharaoh Sanakht. If this proves to be so, it will be important indeed. Only a few unrobbed tombs of Pharaohs have been found, and the earliest of them, that of Tutankhamen, is 1,500 years later than the Third Dynasty...
...Egyptologists are not so sure that Ghoneim will find the mummy of Sanakht or of any Pharaoh. If the sarcophagus does prove to be royal, said Dr. William C. Hayes of New York's Metropolitan Museum, it is likely to contain a Pharaoh earlier than Zoser. builder of the step pyramid. Sanakht was probably a son of Zoser, and no prideful Pharaoh was likely to place his tomb, as the new found one was placed, behind that of his father...