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Show San Francisco's "Regular Bishop" 3,500 Years Old SAN I'RAXCISCO. A newly opened mummy in the coffin Unit liiis been hU bed for thirty-five centuries is the latest curiosity to lie seen nt th MeimirhtJ museum, Golden Gate park, and is being inspected by many visitors. r T LOOKS LIKE HF The mummy was brought from th,i land of the l'haraolis by the labi Jeremiah Lynch many years ago and by him presented to the museum. It had been left slumbering in its sarcophagus until Curator 1'enez took charge recently. He opened the case and set it forth in the main entrance hall, where all who come may see the relic. The mummy himself is now nothing noth-ing but a figure of brown cla.T, un-recoenizable un-recoenizable in its cerements of long- forgotten ages. But in the old days, about the time that Rameses, the king, was making the Israelites build his Pyramids, and before the cohorts of Amenophis were swallowed in the lied sea, this mummy was an ecclesiastic, a high priest in the Temple of Isis at Ekhmin. And in those days the priests were the aristocracy of Egypt. Now, soundly he 6leeps in a land then unborn, and today the people of a world to which his people and his times are still a mystery contemplate his mummy in the Memorial museum and say : "So that guy was a regular bishop in those days ! Well, what do you know about that!" |