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Pp. xvi+80, pls. 16, text figs. 5. 4to. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Publications of the Department of Egyptian Art), 1934. $6.00. The finest group of ancient Egyptian jewelry yet known was discovered just before the outbreak of the Great War by Sir Flinders Petrie's British School of Archaeology in Egypt. The war interfered with its detailed study at the time, and even the publication of the find by the excavator, Mr. Guy Brunton,' was delayed until 1920. The owner of the jewelry was the princess Sit Hat-IHor Yfinet, presumably a daughter of King Sesostris II of the 12th Dynasty, since her tomb lay beside the pyramid of that king. That she had lived into the reign of her nephew Amenemhet III was indicated by the presence in her tomb of jewelry bearing the names of both kings. By special arrangement, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was fortunately able to acquire all of Sit Hat-Hor Yfinet's treasure except her crown and a few other objects retained for the Cairo Museum. Though avoidance of further subdivision facilitated study of the material, the problem of determining the original forms of Sit Hat-Hor Yfinet's ornaments remained sufficiently complicated. By great good

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T. George Allen

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University of Chicago Press

Published

1935

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