ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE HIDDEN FROM VIEW, PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS ARE HARD AT WORK BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART.(NORFOLK COMPASS)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: September 12, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: NANCY LEWIS, STAFF WRITER

PSAMTIK SENEB'S sarcophagus lies as still and silent as it has for more than two millennia.

The hieroglyph-decorated burial vault unearthed at Egypt's Heliopolis archaeological site in 1930 once held the mummy of a XXVI Dynasty medical doctor, but it's empty now.

Visitors to Norfolk's Chrysler Museum of Art file reverently past the glass case that encloses the artifact carved out of gray schist by some unknown artisan of antiquity. They glance at the label that places the piece in time and place, then move on to gaze reflectively at ...

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