. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ill Plate ?PROPRIETOR,.^/J„„;,„ T,,,,,/,,.,?/„„/ /rf*»r„„sh; .isovJ /urn- iii f/w RoftrJ /h>r/in NOTTa GLIDD0N5 7r/tl-, M„h). EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. 239 Fio. bably Calisirians: a word which means young guard, and also persons wearing theeahzsiris, fringed [The pictorial illustrations designed in 1842for Gliddons Lectures having required a cri-tical stud
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . ill Plate ?PROPRIETOR,.^/J„„;,„ T,,,,,/,,.,?/„„/ /rf*»r„„sh; .isovJ /urn- iii f/w RoftrJ /h>r/in NOTTa GLIDD0N5 7r/tl-, M„h). EGYPT AND EGYPTIANS. 239 Fio. bably Calisirians: a word which means young guard, and also persons wearing theeahzsiris, fringed [The pictorial illustrations designed in 1842for Gliddons Lectures having required a cri-tical study of every head then known uponthe monuments, we will here introduce anextract from his UthnograpJiic Notes, writteneleven years ago — when, without theory tosustain, he could have no idea that his privatememoranda would become available to ana-tomists in the year 1853. —J. C. X.] These are Egyptian soldiers, of the royal body-guard — probably Hermotybians, or Ca-lasirians; but, as the latter name seems derivable from the Coptic SHELOSHIRI, young,and since these soldiers are young men, it is likely that they represent Calasiriuns of theroyal guard — like the young guard of Napoleon, or the Yenee-cheri (Corrupted by Euro-peans into Janisaries), new guard of the Ottomans. The Hermotybians were the vete-ran!— the old guard, in whose char
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