TIDBITS 07/27/03

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weeks installment of Tidbits is sponsored by JustBeads.com ... the Internet's fastest growing bead-only auction site.JustBeads.com....finally an auction site for JustBeads! Of The Man With Four Names Is there a man or woman alive today who has not heard of our mystery guest. Methinks not. He was born in an era when he and his kind--when they rose to a certain position--assumed four new names ... aside from the one he already owned. And to his original name ... there was often added an extension. Re: John (name). Son of Sam (extension). What's your name, Mister? My name is John Son of Sam. How famous was he, you all may well ask? Very, I respond. So Very in fact ... that his original name as well as new adopted names were often carved on monuments and official documents.

Clue: He was a King in days gone by. Among his four adopted names ... one was a Throne Name ...a name he used most often when there was room on official documents for only one name. And yet ... I would venture to say that very few know our chap by this Throne Name ... but rather by his given name ... without extensions.

Clue: His name was written with a drawing. I have a picture of a pendant of his made of heavy gold plate ... finely chased on upper and lower surfaces ... representing his Throne Name.

Clue: His name in this pendant is represented by an oversized beetle. A disk of the sun--inlaid with Carnelian--is held within the scarab's front claws ... one of which is broken. This pose represents the beetle's action in nature. Beneath the scarab is a basket made of gold and inlaid with blue glass. This basket in separated from the beetle itself by three vertical strokes indicating the plural. I think this might mean that our king referred to himself in the plural. We are the King and We demand ....

Clue: His Throne Name was Nepkheperura. While I am reasonably sure a very scant few of you know this name ... the geographical origin might come into focus leading some of you--if you have not already guessed--to the lifting of the mists that hid his name from view in your mind's eye.

Clue: The source of the gold used to make the jewelry was Nubia ... then under this Kingdom's rule. The purity range of Nubian gold was from 17 to 23.5 karats. It was said that gold in this king's country was "as plentiful as dust."

As to the identity of our most famous of them all ... the identity of our many named king who had jewels in abundance was none other than Tut ... King Tut if you please ... Tutankhamun if you don't please. So there it is ... another dash of useless minutiae to store away and let clog your synapses to the point that you can consider yourselves lucky if you remember own your name.

For those of you who are new to this thing called Tidbits...may I direct you to my home page at

where you will scroll down the left side menu till you get to the area that says Tidbits Graphics ... and then click on the link that says: Tut ... where you'll see an image of his name in gold.

And there ya have it. That's it for this week folks. Catch you all next week. Benjamin Mark

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