Fro. 162.28!;. This head we regard as a most.kiteresting
one, in connection w ith theEgyp-
; tian ty p e ; because it gives the Egyptian
idea o f their own people, whom the
accompanying hieroglyphics Call the
RoT, that is, “Jsace,” p a r excellence
viewed by the Egyptians as the only'
human species, to the exclusion o f “ outside
barbarians” o f every nation around
F ig . 163. UfS 11 lan<d o f Parity and justice!” ^ Now, although this effigy was designed,
at Thebes, as typical; o f the Egyptian na-
jk- ' 0 tion during the XV t i lt h dynasty, to us
m * * ’ it* seenis rather to he the long-settled
type o f that race, handed down from early
tithes; for, assuredly, it does not correspond
with the royal portraits o f the New
Empire; which, we have seen, .were
strongly Semitic in their lineaments,-and
therefore chiefly Asiatic in derivation.
This EoT, if plaepd alongside the ieo-
nographic monuments o f the IVth, Vth,
''and V lth dynasties, is closely anffiogous,
. to the predominant type %f that d a y ;
1 which fact serves to strengthen our view
that the Egyptians o f the early dynasties
were rather o f ah* African or Negroid
type.— resembling the Bishari, in some*
respects, in others, the modern Eellah, or
peasantry, o f Upper Egypt. To show its
analogy to the primitive stock, we reproduce
a ,better copy o f the colored head
o f Prince Mbrhei (Eig. 154),. “ P riest of
'Shufu” builder o f the. great ’pyramid,
and probably his son ( s u p r a , 177, E ig ,
FlG. 154.288
118). More than 170.0 years o f time sepa-
rafe t v o sculptures, and yet how M)|
111'SffllWilliMlMffliBMlIlB delible.is the typed®
Eig. 155 is taken from the tem p le o f Aboosimbel — Wars in Asia
o f Ramses II., XV 111th dynasty, during the fourteenth century B. c.
This head is one o f a group o f full-length portraits o f the same type,
and they are Egyptian picked .soldiers o f the royal, body-guard — pro-