. 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 . Shabak- Sabaco.(Meroite ?) Shabatok- Sevechm.(Pharaoh Sua. 2 Kings, xvii. 4.) CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS. 151Fig. Tahr aka- Tirhaka.( Melek-KuSA. 2 Kings, xix. 9.) It is unnecessary, for ethnological purposes, to continue the seriesof Egyptian portraits down to the Ptolemies, and ending with Cleo-patra (already given, Fig. 8, page 104,) and her son by Julius CLesar,CLesarion. The rea
. 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 . Shabak- Sabaco.(Meroite ?) Shabatok- Sevechm.(Pharaoh Sua. 2 Kings, xvii. 4.) CARRIED THROUGH EGYPTIAN MONUMENTS. 151Fig. Tahr aka- Tirhaka.( Melek-KuSA. 2 Kings, xix. 9.) It is unnecessary, for ethnological purposes, to continue the seriesof Egyptian portraits down to the Ptolemies, and ending with Cleo-patra (already given, Fig. 8, page 104,) and her son by Julius CLesar,CLesarion. The reader can behold the whole of them in Rosellinismagnificent folios. Having presented the royal likenesses, to serveas evidence of Egyptian artistic accuracy, we shall now investigatethe foreign nations with whom the men, whose portraits we have justseen, were acquainted; together with such others as their ancestorshad known during twenty centuries previously. It will become apparent, in a succeeding chapter, that even as farback as the IVth dynasty, b. c. 3500, the population of Egypt alreadyexhibited abundant instances of mixed types of African and Asiaticorigins; at the same time that the language then spoken on the LowerNile, and recorded in the earliest hieroglyphics, also presents evi-dence of these amalgamations.
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