bably Oalisirians: a word wbicb means “ young
%uard,” and also persons wearing tbe calasiris,
pfringed tunic.” 280
[The pictorial illustrations designed in 1842
for Gliddon’s Lectures having required a critical
study of every head then known upon
the monuments, we will here introduce an
extract from, his Ethnographic Notes, written
eleven years ago — when, without theory to
sustain, he could have no idea that his private
memoranda would become available to anatomists
in the year 1853. —J. C.M.]
F io , 155.269
I These are Egyptian soldiers, of the royal body-guard— probably Hgrmotybians, or C'a-
lasirians; but, as the latter name seems derivable from the doptic SHELOSHIRI, young,
and since Ithese soldiers are young men, it is likely that they represept Calasirians of the
royal guard— like the young guard of Napoleon, or.the Ymie-cheri (oorrupted by Europeans
into Janizaries), ‘ new guard’ of the Ottomans. The Hermotybians were the veterans—
the old guard, in .¡wh ose charge were1 the fortresses.
“ Now, as these soldiers were quartered in, and efiefly drafted from, Lmher Egypt, this
soldier is à gqod specimen of the | thews and sinews’ of Egypt! See his athletic build, his
muscular frame, and look of bull-dog determination— the.very beaùricìeal. of a soldier!
This man is precisely similar to the mass of the Fellàhs of Lower Egypt at this day, especially
on the Damiata branch, and I could pick thousands in these provinces to'match him :
whereas, above Middle Egypt, as you approach Nubia, this type disappears, to be replaced
by lank, . tall, dark, spare men, until the Fellàh merges in the Nubian races, above Esnè.
I therefore contend that this spldieris a perfect specimen of the picked men of Lower Egypt,
B. c. 1560. He shows the superiority of the people of Lower Egypt in that day; while, as
he is identical with the picked men of the Fellàhs of Lower, Egypt at the present day, it fol-
lowsjhat very great-¡changes have not taken place, in 3500 years, between the anrimt and
moti b i Lower Egyptians and supports my assertion that, apart from a certain amount of
Arab-cross (easily explained, and easily detected), it is in Lower Egyp% among the Fellàhs,
you will find the descendants of the ancient race — more than among the Copts (whose
females are, and have been, the <Gussarieych of Nations’) | and infinitely more than among
the half-witted, dissolute, corrupt, and mongrel African race of Baràberas.”
Morton’s comparison of ancient and modern skulls .confirms this
view ; and it will remove some erroneous notions from the reader of
Osburn, 1 to mention an indisputable proof Of the Egyptian origin of -
those guards — that is, the fact that they are painted red in the tableau^
at Aboosimbel.
Mow, a remark made by us when speaking of thè last race (RoT),
applies equally to this, figure d viz.,fthat although both are reprèspnt-
ffions of Egyptians, drawn and colored by an Egyptian artist, during
the XVlUth dynasty, yet this soldier does not display'the same type
as the legitimate line of royal portraits, from Amenoph I. downwards.
There is nothing Asiatic about his physiognomy — on the contrary,
it perpetuates the African or Negroid type of the first dynasties.