. 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 . Fia. Fig. 96. This head presents us with the true Hellenic line of nose and forehead ; for, althougnthe latter is more receding than we continually see in the Greek heads, it forms an unin-terrupted line with the nose. The black hair is in unison with the other traits; but thered tint of the eye [perhaps an error of artist ?] is not so readily accounted for. The facialangle, moreover, in thi
. 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 . Fia. Fig. 96. This head presents us with the true Hellenic line of nose and forehead ; for, althougnthe latter is more receding than we continually see in the Greek heads, it forms an unin-terrupted line with the nose. The black hair is in unison with the other traits; but thered tint of the eye [perhaps an error of artist ?] is not so readily accounted for. The facialangle, moreover, in this head, is little short of a right-angle. Fw. 94. J^ the sake of comparison, we first give Lepsiuss copy of the enlarged head (Fig. 94)of the standard type of Yellow races, fromthe quadripartite division in Setis tomb, de-scribed in a former place. Beneath it, () is a reduction of one of the same fourpersons at full length. Opposite, we putRosellinis copy (Fig. 96),for the express purpose ofindicating an error in theTuscan work which thePrussian has removed: re-ferring to our note179 forexplanations. Numerous are the com-rades of Fig. 97 in theconquests of Ramses II.,at Beyt-el-Walee, XlXthdynasty
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