. 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 . Fig. 19. an undated Babylonian cy- Fig. 18. linder ^ (Fig. 18), too minutein size for ethnographical pre-cision, indicate more of wildArab lineaments: an infer-ence which the low-land siteof Babylon, where Mr. Layardfound it, may justify. If wecontrast these last with (), no. Egyptian artistic idea of a Canaanite(Kanana — barbarian),93 the prevalence of this so-called Semitic type from the
. 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 . Fig. 19. an undated Babylonian cy- Fig. 18. linder ^ (Fig. 18), too minutein size for ethnographical pre-cision, indicate more of wildArab lineaments: an infer-ence which the low-land siteof Babylon, where Mr. Layardfound it, may justify. If wecontrast these last with (), no. Egyptian artistic idea of a Canaanite(Kanana — barbarian),93 the prevalence of this so-called Semitic type from the Euphrates, throughPalestine, to the eastern confines of the Nile, be-comes exemplified, back to the twelfth and fif-teenth centuries b. c, as thoroughly as ocular ob-servation can realize similar features in the sameregions at the present day. Each canon of art,94 in Egypt and in Assyria,was dogmatically enforced (let it be remembered)upon principles entirely different: the former, oranterior, being primitive, and dependent ratherupon its relations to graphical expression, morerigidly approximates to the ante-monumental age of the latter, we behold a developed, and consequ
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