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 44 M U S E U M O F FINE A R T S B U L L E T I N

Egyptian Department. the natural wood and the pigments upon i

The delicacy and precision with which the hiero-
Mr. Theodore M. Davis has deposited in the
glyphs are cut are also worthy of note, as well a
Museum as a loan three wooden “ ushabti ” fig-
the quality of “ style ” which the figures posse!
ures * from the tomb of Ua and Tua, the father and
to a marked degree, in spite of their simple line
mother of Queen Tii, which he discovered in the
Ushabtis or Ushabtiu were statuettes made t
Valley of the Kings last spring. An illustrated
receive the soul of the deceased on its return t
account of the discovery of the tomb and the rich
store of beautiful objects which it contained will the tomb in case the body disappeared, These
be found in the Century Magazine for November, three were of servants of the master of the tomb
Although the authorities offered him his choice who were expected to perform the same duties i
heaven that they had on earth, hence the stat-
of the treasures of the tomb, Mr. Davis thought
uettes are Provided with i m p l e m e n t s- a short
it better, on account of the unique character of
the discovery, that they should all be kept to- handled hoe and two sacks for grain, with the
gether in the Museum of Cairo; and conse- pole on which they were carried.
quently these three little figures, which he ac-
cepted as a keepsake, are the only fruits of this
excavation which have been taken away from
Egypt. They are, however, sufficient to give an
impression both of the exquisiteness of the art
that was represented in the tomb and the re-
markable preservation of its contents. Tii was
the Queen of Amenhotep III, of the X V I I I
dynasty, and therefore the date of this tomb
would be roughly about 1400 B.C. Hence these
statuettes are not far from three thousand three
hundred years old, a fact which seems hardly
credible when one observes the fresh color of

*Exhibited in a case immediately to the right on entering the

new Egyptian room.