EXHIBIT OF BIBLICAL ANTIQUITIES. 1001 



The typical physiognomy of the native Egyptian, as exhibited on the 

 numerous monuments, shows a head often too large in proportion to 

 the body, a square and somewhat low forehead, a short and round nose, 

 eyes large and wide open, the cheeks filled out, the lips thick, but not 

 reversed, and the mouth somewhat wide. Contrasting the features 

 of Eamses II with these, some scholars have assumed that he was of 

 Semitic descent or at least had Semitic blood in liis veins. 



Cast of the head of Seti I. — The original is at the Museum of 

 Egyptian Antiquities at Cairo, Egypt. Seti I was the second king 

 of the nineteenth dynasty and father of Ramses II, the Pharaoh 

 of the oppression. He reigned for about twenty-seven years in the 

 thirteenth century B. C. 



Cast of a relief of Seti I. — Photograph of the mummy of Seti I. 

 Taken under the direction of Prof. G. Maspero at the Museum of 

 Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt. 



Cast of the head of Tirhakaii. — Original of granite in the 

 Museum of Antiquities at Cairo. King of Egypt and Ethiopia, 698-672 

 B. C. According to the Biblical account,' Tirhakah, " King of Ethi- 

 opia" (in Egyptian Taharqa), encountered Senacherib, King of Assyria, 

 while the latter was on his expedition against Judah. From the Cunei- 

 form inscriptions we learn that Tirhakah entered into an alliance with 

 Baal, King of Tyre, against Assj'ria. Hezekiah, King of Judah, also 

 joined the league. Esarhaddon marched into Egyi)t, and putting Tir- 

 hakah to flight he placed the rule of the whole country under twenty 

 vassals loyal to Assyria. On the death of Esarhaddon, Tirhakah 

 returned to Egypt, drove out the Assyrians that were there, and took 

 possession of Memphis. Assurbanipal, the son and successor of Esar- 

 haddon (668-626 B. C), at once went to Egypt and defeated him at 

 Karbanit. Tirhakah was again obliged to flee to Thebes and thence to 

 Nubia. The twenty vassal kings were restored and Necho {Niku), 

 " King of Sais and Memphis " put at their head. Soon after this Necho 

 headed a rebellion against the Assyrian rule, but the plot was sup- 

 pressed by the Assyrian garrison of Egypt aiid Necho sent in chains 

 to Nineveh. But when Assurbanipal heard of the new successes of 

 Tirhakah in Egypt, lie sent Necho back to rule over all Egyi^t under 

 the direction of Assyria. Tirhakah soon afterwards died. Manetho, 

 who calls him Tarlvs ( Tara]:os), says he was the last king of the 

 twenty-fifth dynasty. Strabo (xvi, I, 6) calls him Tearl-on, and describes 

 him as one of the greatest conquerors of the ancient world. 



Mummy. — Length, 5 feet 6 inches. Found at Luxor, Egypt, in 1886. 

 (See plates 23 and 21.) No hieroglyphics or inscriptions exist either on 

 the mummy or outer case. The face and head are covered with a mask 

 of green cement, the body delicately proportioned. On the chest lie 

 four small tablets about the size of playing cards, each one having a 

 mummied figure of Osiris in a standing position. Two shield-shaped 



1 II Kings xix, 9, and Isaiah xxxvii, 9. 



