Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . as their chief who had been carried intobondage by the Egyptian conquerors of the country. I will leave this point to be disciissed and settled by more competentjudges ; and will only add, in support of my conclusion, that directly Iexhibited the head. No. 55, to INIr. Birch, he exclaimed at once, and • Thcso portraits been published in a liandsomc lithot^aithcd album, and afull account of thcni will bo found in an extract from the Aeic
Cilicia, its former history and present state; with an account of the idolatrous worship prevailing there previous to the introduction of Christianity . as their chief who had been carried intobondage by the Egyptian conquerors of the country. I will leave this point to be disciissed and settled by more competentjudges ; and will only add, in support of my conclusion, that directly Iexhibited the head. No. 55, to INIr. Birch, he exclaimed at once, and • Thcso portraits been published in a liandsomc lithot^aithcd album, and afull account of thcni will bo found in an extract from the Aeic Yurk Herald, in theTmaof Oct. 14, 1852. CONNEXION WITH EGYPT. 211 without hesitation, I will tell you what people this head represents ;and he turned immediately to the plate in KossaUnis work before-mentioned. Indeed, if we admit similarity of features as a guide in discerningthe difference of races, there can be little doubt on the subject. Itmight be imagined that these two heads (No. 55, p. 203), and the onecopied out of Eossaliuis work herewith introduced, not only representedthe same race of men, but were even intended to portray the same. A KNEELING CAPTIVE—FROM EOSSALINI. individual, with some twenty years difference in age, only such as hewould be at forty and at sixty. Kameses III. was of the 18th dynasty, and must have effected hisconquest 1200 or 1500 years : my Lares and Penates have beenproved to have been destroyed about the year 70 of the Christian era ;so that if these heads represent the Kliita, as I have no doubt they do,* * Mr. Layard discovered in the moiind of Nabbi Yuuus, or of the Prophet Jonah,near Mosul, a head carved in a yellow sjlex (Eisen Kiesel ?) with singularly grotes(iuefeatures, which he considers to belong to the later Assyrian period, and an imitation 212 LARES AND PENATES. thev had been accumulating in Tarsus, together with many other godsand idols of all nations from the East and West, which were found withthem, upwards of 1200 ye
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