Word: sarcophaguses
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Thirty-five years ago a sarcophagus weighing 3½ tons was found buried in the old chapel of St. Edmund at Thetford. The sarcophagus lay around until two weeks ago when a Mrs. Jameson, archeologist wife of a local doctor, convinced that it contained Sweyn's bones, agitated for recommitment. Rev. Ronald Cooling, Vicar of St. Mary's, Thetford was about to conduct the ceremony last week when Bishop Herbert of Norwich intervened. Experts, he decreed, must first study the bones...
Psousennes' pink granite funerary chamber is rectangular, 23 by 10 ft. The big granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...
...wall are two smaller statues, a torso and a so-called Narcissus, and two fine fragments showing a battle of Greeks and Amazons from a Roman sarcophagus of the third century A. D. In the remaining spaces are grouped several Attic grave reliefs and a number of heads, notably a wrestler, a Grecian matron, and a woman of Palmyra. Against the window is an urn, a third century lekythos...
...into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...
...back with her head to the north. Most of the mummy and its wrappings had disintegrated, but the head was well preserved. With the skeleton were bracelets, anklets, two necklaces of gold and a copper girdle, a gold headdress with streamers of copper and gold. Atop the sarcophagus was an ala baster headrest, shaped like a crescent moon on a pedestal (see cut). Professor Hassan found four sculptured gold fingers, searched for six more gold fingers and ten gold toes. Director John A. Wilson of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute called Chephren's daughter, "one of the best...