Egyptian Antiquities at the University of California
Among the recent additions to the museum of the University of California are some valuable antiquities from Egypt. One painted stone is wonderfully preserved, the color as fresh and decided as tho it were put on a week ago. Other finds are a gold necklace and carmelian heads, eight gravestones, one of which is mentioned above, ranging in date from the sixth to the eighteenth dynasties. One gravestone says that the deceased was “the favorite of his father, the first-born of his mother, the beloved of his brothers and sisters.” Among the other finds are a painted coffin, a bronze spear-head, still fastened to the original wooden shaft, six fine small alabaster vases, a beautiful alabaster head-rest, two wooden head-rests, a wooden chair, with part of the woven seat still preserved, a wooden mace, beautifully decorated with bits of straw to imitate gold and with designs in red and black, a gold necklace, a large and beautiful scarab, a number of pots and other small objects, and six gold ornaments, including models of lion and eye, two birds, and two beautifully wrought bees, all of which show that we moderns do not know everything.