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EXCAVATIONS AT DEIR EL BAHR!
at not having found anything of striking importance in her tomb.
Bandage after bandage was removed, and then suddenly there was a
glint of carnelian beads. Carefully the linen was cut away, and one
after another five charming necklaces appeared. Mayet may have
been hastened off to the grave in whatever coffins could be found,
but at least she was decked out in all the finery she had worn during
her brief life.
There was a string of great ball beads of hollow gold; another of
carnelian beads; two necklaces of minute beads of silver, carnelian,
green felspar, and rich blue glass; and a necklace of gold disks so fine
that strung on leather bands they look like a supple tube of unbroken
gold. Removing each necklace carefully we were able to preserve
the exact arrangement of every bead. In fact, the carnelian necklace
still remains on its original string; the end cords of the gold ball beads
could be saved; and the leather of the gold disk beads, while hard,
had only to be softened a little to be bent into shape. The two neck-
laces of small beads had to be restrung and the silver and glass units
cleaned to admit new thread, but we recovered all of the brilliant,
joyous color scheme of the jewelry as little Mayet wore it four
thousand years ago.
EXCAVATIONS AT DEIR EL BAHR!
at not having found anything of striking importance in her tomb.
Bandage after bandage was removed, and then suddenly there was a
glint of carnelian beads. Carefully the linen was cut away, and one
after another five charming necklaces appeared. Mayet may have
been hastened off to the grave in whatever coffins could be found,
but at least she was decked out in all the finery she had worn during
her brief life.
There was a string of great ball beads of hollow gold; another of
carnelian beads; two necklaces of minute beads of silver, carnelian,
green felspar, and rich blue glass; and a necklace of gold disks so fine
that strung on leather bands they look like a supple tube of unbroken
gold. Removing each necklace carefully we were able to preserve
the exact arrangement of every bead. In fact, the carnelian necklace
still remains on its original string; the end cords of the gold ball beads
could be saved; and the leather of the gold disk beads, while hard,
had only to be softened a little to be bent into shape. The two neck-
laces of small beads had to be restrung and the silver and glass units
cleaned to admit new thread, but we recovered all of the brilliant,
joyous color scheme of the jewelry as little Mayet wore it four
thousand years ago.