The oldes^iri^ to ij^ human effigy noife extairtssitSat
on .t)le‘0 ailet ^ ^ f e ^ f la ^ ^ j^ r e s e rv e d in- th | .gsp§ffl|
gA^f^rence.* T b i W c h has Q H ||
satisfeetonly piovod ta'd|jtp more thanrtwo tKcmsand
two yeitp Christian tajepTe-
[jpmts -Oisortaseh- .tjnfs First ini the form jfi&m^®to,f&,nd
Ufeoemng-from tha- god Monthou, (Ma^>yth^)eople B
LybiaL Bound witbedras as. captive nations.;
The featuke&4jf the king' sare strictly“PelasgiG<jcafiid
the, faciahangl.%j;^%wi$g: for- the unnatural, ,'ele^ation
|M the ear;) ; measures ;u py?a jdshpf GightyjdisgreJS It is
also remarkable djiab this; head, is ,S'|r|l?i®g,^lhke1 thpfg
of fhaj'UtelpB^!^; sovereigns; of-[Egypt, and,, .esj^pijilly
0©rre^attd& in ;effery feefura with the portrait jof, {?’<§]$.
my^Euergetesifh) although ejghteqn.centuries elapsed
hetweeb theif rlkfiiitfiwti « m f
TOwr propfgt^^thafc wtelhWItll®! effigy be a-E® trait
ornobiLat least ofeves^feat th e artists of -those p^p g f
val times deriyedfetheB:.idea&iafiithe human- countenance
from Caucasian models^
The nextpf these beads which ean be‘identified with its;leppch, is that of Amunqph* IS
JhiSi^garn, presents a fine cast of Eumpcam features : - ^uqhfdn fact, as~wo,nld^ftrnihKllLb, a
Grecian statue; ap i-y e t this monarch, yejgned ih the ■vra.lmy^of the mle, and held his
court in Memphis more than eighteen^^undrecf years before the^birfe a frjCli rista (State
XIV., Fjg^L.) And, ifrfrom this ^einof^p^ripd w,e trace the ph’ysinguomviof Ap.ymraa
and queens of the;5sjibsjequgnt , reigns* weperceiveparaang- them .jnahy equally beautiful
ippdels,?some of which, ai$ ggy infeioj; to the beau ideal of cljgsie art.
the heads^qf.,-Menepthah and Rameses III., in. the, character of .pnest,—jRamesesTXt,
Rameses XL; and Amenmeses,—the queens NofFe^Ari, andr':Nitocris, a^tMiOaughter
pf Phisham (or-Pihme,), , fhe regent priest, and le i me ask among what gepnfei^a shall
find.rnore graceful facial lines,, or more varied intellectual expressioaJ . ’ (Pla te .XlV./^r
I t may lie suggested that in,some of these heads the Pelasgic-<3laracte*r is' nowwhqljy.
lunmixed, and-i especially tin reference to Amunoph the First« In, this: instance thorn, is
spnietMhg;BPWeJE ^ p f i a A ^ , as Professor Blumenbach would express it, the“ Hindoo,
jphysdognopay. I wish i^^bejunderstodd, however, that I (fe^nM assert all 'flfes’e^sovO-
feipiSffe; have been.of the Pelasgic or Japetio stock; for some of them, as. Rameses, tlm
Third, and Menepthah the First, are on other occasions represented with •dfeqidecjiiy
Egyptian features. These mixea and1 varied Caucasian linearhents may^erhaps havfe
been deiajved from the antecedent Hellenic kings, who ip giving place again-' fudhp patiyA
'EigypMaPs/n^st douhtless- haye left their national characteristics more or lessahfe^rf
with those of the'incligenous families.
-■'“l*,>Slial3W*iKn* ^ ,nliPenitg»-'%ghI., -P*?te !•; TJ),e.ain?xed figure is greatly enlargeS firdm Chamjollioh’s drawing.
.S.ee also Rosellini, M..Ri, Mate 'X yV j in^hich tfc eye is wanting.
^pCbttmjioffion Figeac, Egypte, p. 293.
-o Thl^fo iM iich e a tds£,w!^lKg{re ■alb'hfiilstrictlvr Caucasian proportions, are facsimile
Aynpiyisf ifrbn^tfRfascllihi. tdllfEigl are) derived from 'groups of figures engaged in various
'Wechainc.il' anglOTlreiN^p©rklfeh^vas;irepVekemted in the tombs and temples of Thebes, and
varibus;^^S%asteTof I%ypty tu
The annexed*Tre?®®'!)’ rliaf reaper, is one of a great number
reSehu^Wli[*baI-reWeftNE*M^fehfated tombs of Eilethyas, which
I po®ess 'a0‘grlatyf ahlieffel{(,am|^alue in' ethnography on account of
theid1’ven?er^b'li^ f ^M ity ; for ffidy^1fe%ith'and before the eighteenth
three thousand six hundred
years^odf®1 The^rSat?? Freftcl^ work jHBescription de l’Egypte,)
Pfe^iil^W'all'bxterid^tfs^fl^&^llustrations from the same remarkable
promliPTO^M m ij^s'mmar features is almost every where ap-
‘si vie* d h ^ ’othertfead (21 from Rosellini,
r^ r,w ^ c li;tiiupngiffafrpainting is jirelel'^d^in the Royal Gallery
[fteOTesentsl’|m artisair 'r flow’aPtfiirably do the fea-
1 ur<'F'connn riyWtueTlYe?ran type!;' '.
f mpro.crh^T)B
^m a llc a ll^ ’in retcrenc^TOylne admirable;]
Bwi!ttle^ M^nRt a^ffiMul?1 I
[ Ramcse-llwiip^Thntl, wherein' eigb 1y s,wjf^|
I diers; sipole grmi^cOTbM
I onelhearing'i:isslucfdc s®i!pdfip»fgrArem^^#mereenaries“.!
fi o m f o 11 1 he 111 c l exiiw>ri b< siyV-ld sek cliflrtVtM o 'ubjpin^tH
(‘xamplesy'^i'ffler <a'sclbse^nJen^Jnnee' 1.penades them all-
^perh~,again eve'fry line; andjyeti'wh’eri these paint-
'iffl^'IuVei(uc*xpcntMfITlic^jJiw^ifn5lwB^i3^dthard^4heg.unj
t | l^ocialo tlfemsaltt:es{iffitttuKih/cd'.communiiti'(slu|)4.d'ithe tu rn
p « | Greece1 were;umiknowin; ,• >
Paintings“', of a sitnilaq-ethnographiq pharaoter ai?e»' seen in proffision at Beni-Hassan,
whence'isrdeijweci tne' anh^eS^bujtlMey-rr&presenting one of
B fee-IMtb'Qri-jlressdrs "of that1 g ^ p p y ,Thfe straight^ line for. the
H^ffie'uanmjt0]?d&^i/av^§:tHoJly«P.elasgic, and conform in most
^^m^|^al-lhe.otherrfaclal.traits. (^<)|obf
T’he ^rnci^n'erarphysiognomy is often much more rudely
| §xprre?scd,'as ip tneftomh ofTmai,.at'G-feeh, which is of the age
[^f‘"^uro^TO^|hg<>fe^n^Mynasty,-l'lri,di,yofisequeritlty the period
, oiQljJpu^-cfii^nqlogy^r Rude |is‘Mesd!_figures are, and identified,
with an humble sphere of difeythey, have the Caucasian
form, and partake of the'saffi'e’!ethnograpM#Jlitieaments with.the more elaborately finished
*al|b 5 aÇm , M. <'..]Jja*o 33.
I Ho-ellnu, M C.; Plate 13f]
f Antiquity,. tPlate
§. Idem. M. R., Plate 96.