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The following heads, which are all of strictly Caucasian proportions, are Sac stmele 
copies from Rosellini. They are derived from groups of figures engaged in various 
mechanical and other operations, as represented in the tombs and temples of Thebes, and 
various other parts of Egypt. 
sil The annexed head, (1) that of a reaper, is one of a great number 
ry executed in bas-relief in the celebrated tombs of Enlethyas, which 
i possess a greater interest and value in ethnography on account of 
i their venerable antiquity; for they date with and before the eighteenth 
l * dynasty, and consequently are at least three thousand six hundred 
= years old.* The great French work, (Description de l’Egypte,) 
io contains an extended series of illustrations from the same remarkable 
/ tombs in which a similar cast of features is almost every where ap- 
‘ parent. 
The same style of face is not less decidedly expressed i in another head (2) from Rosel- 
apelin, lini,t of which the original painting is preserved in the Royal Gallery 
2 [ Dy at Florence. It represents an artisan. How admirably do the fea- 
=) | tures conform to the Grecian type! 
— I repeat the remark, and yet more em- 
phatically, in reference to the admirable 
bs battle scene at Abousimbel, of the age of 
Rameses the Third, wherein eighty sol- 
diers are depicted in a single group, each | 
one bearing a shield and spear. Are they mercenaries 
from one of the Hellenic tribes? I select the two subjoined 
examples; (3) for a close resemblance pervades them all. 
Here again every line is Grecian; and yet when these paint- [ 
ings were executed, the wandering Pelasgi had hardly begun 
to associate themselves in civilized communities, and the arts 
of Greece were unknown. 
Paintings of a similar ethnographic character are seen in profusion at Beni-Hassan, 
whence is derived the annexed outline, representing one of 
the leather-dressers of that group. The straight line for the 
nose and forehead are strictly Pelasgic, and conform in most 
respects to the other facial traits. (4) 
The same general physiognomy is often much more rudely 
expressed, as in the tomb of Imai, at Gizeh, which is of the age 
of Shufo, of the fourth dynasty, and consequently the period 
of disputed chronology. Rude as these figures are, and iden- 
tified with an humble sphere of life, they have the Caucasian 
form, and partake of the same ethnographic lineaments with the more elaborately finished 
* Rosellini, M. C., Plate 33. t+ Antiquités, Tom. I., Plate 68, 
{ Rosellini, M. C., Plate 13. } Idem. M. R., Plate 96. 
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