. 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 . e;and here, again, we can only institute adequate com-parisons by reference to the works of Champollion andRosellini. I observe the Hindoo style of features inseveral of the royal effigies; and in none more deci-dedly than in the head of Asharramon (Fig. 191), assculptured in the temple of Debod, in Nubia. Thedate of this king has not yet been ascertained ; but,as he ruled over Meroe, and not in
. 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 . e;and here, again, we can only institute adequate com-parisons by reference to the works of Champollion andRosellini. I observe the Hindoo style of features inseveral of the royal effigies; and in none more deci-dedly than in the head of Asharramon (Fig. 191), assculptured in the temple of Debod, in Nubia. Thedate of this king has not yet been ascertained ; but,as he ruled over Meroe, and not in Egypt, (probablyin Ptolemaic times [b. c. 200-300],) he may be re-garded as an illustration of at least one modificationof the Austral-Egyptian type. Another set of features, but little different, how-ever, from the preceding, is seen among the middlingclass of Egyptians as pictured on the monuments,and these I also refer to the Hindoo type. Take,for example, the four annexed outlines (Fig. 192),copied from a sculptured fragment preserved in themuseum of Turin. These effigies may be said to beessentially Egyptian ; but do they not forcibly remindus of the Hindoo ? NEGRO TYPES. 267 Fig. So great is our respect for Mortons judgment; such manifold ex>periences have we acquired of his perceptive acuteness in craniologicalanatomy, that we should prefer the affirmatory decisions of othersrelative to this Hindoo-Meroite problem, to any negation on our ownparts. The preceding brief digressions enable us to leave Meroe, and re-sume with a more positive, because osteological, proof of the perdu-rable continuance of the Negro type. This semi-embalmed cranium of aNegress (Fig. 193), from Mortonscabinet, is preserved at the Acade-my of Natural Sciences in Phila-delphia. Beyond the fact that mum-mification ceased towards the fifthcentury of our era; and that, beingfrom an ancient tumulus at the sa-cred Isle of Beghe, the femaleowner of the annexed skull mayhave been a domestic sl
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