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Remarks.—The two Negroid heads belong, obviously, to the lower class of people, 
for the bodies have been hastily and imperfectly embalmed, without mummy cases, and 
n ordinary wrappings. The two latter remarks apply to the other individuals of this 
series, which have, nevertheless, been much more carefully embalmed. 
THIRD SERIES. 
FOUR SKULLS FROM ABYDOS. 
The city of Abydos, the second in size in the Thebaid, was on the west bank of the 
Nile, and, like 'Thebes, possessed a palace of Rameses III., and a temple of Osiris, the 
guardian divinity of the city. 
Plate V., Fig. 1, (Cat. 819.) An elongated head, with an indifferent frontal and low 
coronal region, straight nose, small orbits, and prominent upper jaw.—I. C. 85 cubic inches. 
F. A. 79° Egyptian form. 
Plate V., Fig. 2. (Cat. 820.) A large and finely moulded cranium, with a broad, 
full forehead, and long, but abruptly salient nose. The upper jaw has a remarkable 
downward elongation, which reduces the F. A. to '76°.—I. C. 96 cubic inches. A man 
of 40. Egyptian form. 
Plate V., Fig. 3. (Cat. 817.) A large, beautifully developed cranium, of harmonious 
proportions, but somewhat ponderous structure.—I. C. 89 cubic inches. F. A. 80°. 
Pelasgic form. 
Plate V., Fig. 4. (Cat. 818.) A small head, narrow and retreating, with a tumid 
occiput, very large, aquiline nose, and delicate, prominent face.—I. C. 69 cubic inches. 
F. A. 77°. Semitic form. 
Remarks.—In a memorandum accompanying these skulls, Mr. Gliddon observes that 
‘they were obtained from a mummy-pit behind the temple of Rameses IIIL., and they 
belong to the best class. Among the relics found in the same pit were a scarabeus, bear- 
ing the prenomen of 'Thotmes IV., and a piece of stamped pottery, (apparently enclosed 
with a mummy to denote the epoch,) which bore the nomen of Rameses III. It may, 
therefore, be reasonably conjectured, that these remains belong to the eighteenth Diospo- 
litan dynasty, fixed by Professor Rosellini between the years 1822 and 1874, B. C.” 
The four heads are entirely denuded, but little appearance of bitumen remaining; nor 
is the ethmoid bone perforated. ‘The bones bear the impress of age, and, in one instance, 
have become softened, and almost friable, from decomposition. 
FOURTH SERIES. 
FIFTY-FIVE HEADS FROM THE CATACOMBS OF THEBES. 
The greater part of this extensive and singularly perfect and varied series of heads, 
was collected by Mr. Gliddon during two visits to Thebes. They were all taken from 
