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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 11

The Auckland Museum has received a cast of a portrait head in red quartzite of one of the seven daughters of King Akhenaten, of the eighteenth dynasty, who ruled in Egypt in the fourteenth century. B.C. (states the “New Zealand Herald”). The cast has been presented by the Egypt Exploration Society, iu recognition of assistance given to its exploration work by the Auckland Museum in the past. This head, which was discovered at Telel-Ambarna. in the winter of 1926-27, formed part of a group in which King Akhenaten and Qucn Ncfertiti sit enthroned, while princesses are grouped around. Similar heads are known, but this one ranks high on account. of its delicate modelling and its perfect finish, notwithstanding the refractory nature of the material used. The museum already possesses a plaque of King Akhenaten hitnseU and similar /’haractoristics may be traced in father and daughter. The skull of the princess is represented as sloping back at a very sharp angle to the horizontal, and there is a lon<> projection at tho back of tho head, which is considered by Professor Elliot Smith to indicate a ylisoasod condition common to the family. Ono of King Akhenaten‘s daughters was the Oncen of Tutankhamen, the discovery of whoso tomb recently created such a world-wide sensation.

A peculiar circumstance _ connected with a shower of rain which fell recently in the Waikato was that the rainfall recorded differed very considerably in various parts of the districts, while even Hamilton gauges did not agree, a fall of .8 inches being recorded at Ruakura (says the “Times”). A traveller states that the roads showed signs of a heavy shower at Otorohanga, but there was no rain at Ohaupo when he went through. On reaching Tamahere it was evident that rain had fallen, yet further on Matangi was dry.