Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston is another outstanding work by Sculptor French, his "Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor," a memorial for the tomb of Sculptor Martin Milmore...
Sakkara near where ancient Memphis stood, and said they thought they had found the tomb of Architect Im-Hotep, the Christopher Wren of 5,000 years ago. Besides building King Zoser's famed Step Pyramid at Memphis and other monuments, Im-Hotep founded the sciences of law and medicine along the Nile. By the time of Publicist Tutankhamen (enthroned about 1358 B. C.) his legend was almost as old as Christianity now is to the modern world. In Ptolemaic times (Fourth to First Centuries, B. C.) he was deified...
Perhaps, admitted the diggers, the tomb had been a temporary one for King Zoser, used pending Im-Hotep's completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...
...prejudce in praising Lincoln, so Timur is always upon approving lips at Samarkand. The largest slab of jade known to exist is his tombstone (6 ft. x 17 in. x 14 in); and every child of Samarkand has stood in the great vaulted octagonal hall where the green jade tomb reposes, surrounded by six family tombs of white marble...
...loans from private sources, collections whose value is estimated to be in excess of $3,000,000.00. A new building has been erected at a cost of about $1,000,000.00 and an endowment fund of equal amount has been raised. It is not seeking to become a great tomb of art. The collections on display are there for the use ond instruction of those whose interest in art is more than a polite gesture and the more completely these collections represent the great periods in art the more completely this great teaching institution can realize its ideals...