“ This head presents us with the true Hellenic line of nose and forehead; for, althougn
the latter is more receding than we continually see in the Greek heads, it forms an uninterrupted
line with the nose. The black hair is in unison with the other traits; but the
red tint of the eye [perhaps an error of artist ?] is not so readily accounted for. The facial
angle, moreover, in this head, is little short of a right-angle.”
F ig . 94.
For the sake of comparison, we first give
Lepsius’s copy of the enlarged head (Fig. 94)
of the standard type of Yellow races, from
the quadripartite division in Seti’s tomb, described
in a former place. Beneath it, (Fig.
95) is a reduction of one of the same four
persons at full length. Opposite, we put
Rosellini’s copy (Fig. 96),
for the express purpose of
indicating an error in the
Tuscan work which the
Prussian has removed: referring
F ig . 95. F ig. 96.
to our note179 for
explanations.
^Numerous are the comrades
of Fig. 97 in the
conquests of Ramses II .,
at B eyt-el-Wale e, XlXth
dynasty, fourteenth century
b. c. Birch considers
them tribes of Canaan;
because, at Karnac, the
same people are called, in
the text, “ Th'e fallen of the Shos-sou, in their elevation on the fortress
of Pelou, which is in the land of Kanana.”180 And the next (Fig. 98) is
an individual appertaining to another set of prisoners, from some
adjacent district. Oshurn figures them as Jebusites; to which we
F ig. 1
offer no objection; and thus we should behold one of the inhabitants
of ante-Judaie Jerusalem, IeBITS or Jelus: before its capture by
J oshua, and long prior to the expulsion of the Jelusian from Mount
Zion by the prowess of David.
F ig. 99. F ig. 100.
Both the head and the full-length figure,
here presented, illustrate four personages
identical in all respects.181
They are the type of the Yellow races, in
one of the tombs coeval with Mosaic times.
Rosellini, who wrote before the Persian and
the Minevite arrow-heads were deciphered, suggested their resemblance
to the sculptures of Assyria and Persepolis. They portray,
certainly, strong Chaldæan affinities, cognate with the Hebrew race ;
and their elegant green dresses, embroidered with skilful taste, show
a very polished people. Osburn figures them as Hamathites—citizens
of Hamah, between Damascus and Aleppo, eyer renowned for their
beautiful manufactures, brocades, shawls; together with those richly-
colored silk-and-cotton goods, now, dear to Levantine merchants as
“Allàgias ; nor does his view militate against ours. Champollion-
Figeac gives this effigy, with the conjecture of his brother that they
are Medes, corresponding to Persepolitan relievos. Chaldæa seems
to he the centre-point of all these authorities; and we have classified,
elsewhere, this head among Jewish tribes.
Belonging to the same sculptures of the thirteenth to fifteenth
centuries b . c., and located geographically in the same Syrian provinces,
we group together six more specimens of varieties of this
all-pervading Semitic type. Representatives of ancient Sidonians,
Aradians, and so forth, along the coast of Syria, and on the spurs of
Lebanon, each one still lives in thousands of descendants, who now
throng the Bazàars of Sèyda, Beyroot, Tripoli, Latachia, Antioch
and Aleppo. Substitute the turban for the military casque and civic
cap; and, in the same localities, still speaking dialects of the same