Eastern Utah Advocate | 1903-08-13 | Page 2 | Odd Discovery

odd discovery DIe covery A tailors ta bill nearly years old Is one une of the quaintest finds that the nipper expeditions of the university of pennsylvania have evor ever made says the philadelphia record this bill Is on a limestone tablet and the clothes that it were temple robes a kings gift to bis his priests in all 92 robes are mentioned on the tablet among the items are twelve white robes of the temple 11 robes of the house of hie lady 10 collars of the bouse house of bis his lady au pure gold collars 13 white robes 4 scented robes many of the words of the inscriptions are indecipherable archaeologists think that these aro are technical words peculiar pecullar to certain parts of dress words like for instance such terms of tho modern dressmaker as herring boning piping in men en terie and swatch