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"Here is Ahkhenaten--or Khu-en-aten, as the authorities here render the hieroglyphics" She indicated a fragment of a coloured relief labelled: "Portion of a painted stone tablet with a portrait figure of Amen-hetep IV," and we stopped to look at the frail, effee craniu out their weird hands as if caressing hiift, because this room closes at four to-day" With this admonition she moved on to the other end of the roo a e nu set forth the various contents with a brief explanation as follows: "Muether with the objects found in the tomb These include the four Canopic jars, in which the internal organs were deposited, the Ushabti figures, toed to the deceased; his favourite chair, his head-rest, his ink-palette, inscribed with his nan he lived, and other shaether in one case," Miss Bellingham explained, "to show the contents of an ordinary tomb of the better class You see that the dead man was provided with all his ordinary comforts: provisions, furniture, the ink-palette that he had been accusto on papyri, and a staff of servants to wait on him"

"Where are the servants?" I asked

"The little Ushabti figures," she answered; "they were the attendants of the dead, you know, his servants in the under-world It was a quaint idea, wasn't it? But it was all very complete and consistent, and quite reasonable, too, if once one accepts the belief in the persistence of the individual apart froreed, "and that is the only fair way to judge a religious systeranted But what a business it ypt to London"

"It orth the trouble, though, for it is a fine and instructive collection And the work is all very good of its kind You notice that the Ushabti figures and the heads that form the stoppers of the Canopic jars are quite finely h that coat of bitumen on the back doesn't i man"