Nevertheless, already the military
caste of Egypt was a mixed one; for
here are two soldiers (Fig. 156), from
another brigade, who, as Morton observed,
style of feature.292
So too, allowance made for very
possible inattentions on the part of
European copyists, where the subject
was not royal iconography, do some
of the following heads of lower
classes of people (Figs. 157-161),
also selected by Morton: —
F ig. 158.
present rather the Hellenic
F ig. 156.
Fig. 1 57.
Artisan. H Leather-dresser.™ Wrestlers.
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Peasants.295 Serrants.296
The modem Fellnhs, constituting the mass of the common people
of the country, have not even yet become sufficiently adulterated for
their ancestral type to he extinguished, inasmuch as the same preponderating
characteristics can be traced, backwards, from the living
race, through five millennia of stone-chroniclings, to the earliest times.
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