Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-10 | Page 4 | Portrait May be That of Ancient Egyptian Queen

Portrait May Be That of Ancient Egyptian Queen Beautifully sculptured in the almost Impossibly hare hard S stone slone quartzite a portrait head newly found at Tell rell el ci in Egypt may prove to be an image of Queen Nefertiti one of whose daughters married the long posthumously famous Tut ankh amen It has been compared with the famous portrait bust of Nefertiti now in the Berlin museum to to which h it shows strong resemblance in its slender slender slen slen- der beauty and its aristocratic poise For some reason the sculptor never finished his work The back of the II head hend and on one side of at the thc face were left with the black marks guide-marks still on them But the theartist theartist theartist artist was sufficiently satisfied with his partly completed work to paint th the stone lips Ups a bright red The same ame same British expedition which uncovered the new portrait head also found a broken sculpture in unfinIshed condition showing the face of Nefertiti's consort the heretic pharaoh pharaoh phar phar- aoh who tried to introduce a monotheistic religion in the place of Egypt's worship of many gods gorbAn An Another other discovery was a slab bearing In low relief the portraits of at and of hi his ion in