DERIVED FROM ANATOMY, HISTORY, AND THE MONUMENTS. 111 
SEVENTH SERIES. 
FOUR SKULLS FROM DEBOD, IN NUBIA. 
Debéd or Deboud is about twelve miles south of Philw, on the left bank of the Nile, 
and in north latitude 24°. It was the site of the ancient Parembole, and yet possesses 
some ruins of a once splendid temple of Ammon. 
The following heads were all obtained from a single pit, and from the rude manner in 
which they were embalmed and wrapped, Mr. Gliddon (who obtained them with his own 
hands) supposes them to have pertained to people of the lower order. 
Plate XII., Fig. 8. (Cat. 829.) Skull of a woman of 50? with a low but convex fore- 
head, with which the nasal bones have formed a nearly straight line. The coronal region 
is low, and the whole osseous structure strong and rather harsh.—Egyptecan form. I. C. 
70 cubic inches. F. A. 85°. 
Plate XIT., Fig. 9. (Cat. 827.) Skull of a man of 40, which strongly resembles the 
preceding. ‘The forehead is low, but broad and vertical, the whole cranium long, the 
coronal region compressed, the orbits large, and the upper maxille slightly everted.— 
I. C, 82 cubic inches, Lgyptian form. 
Plate XIII. (Cat. 826.) A fine oval head, with a broad, high, convex forehead, large, 
straight nose, and rather prominent maxille. On one side is a mass of long, black hair, 
much curled, and of a fine texture—I. C. 74 cubic inches, F, A, 77°. Egyptian form. 
(Cat. 828.) An elongated, infantile head, with a narrow but vertical forehead, deli- 
cately formed face, very full occiput, and (what is not uncommon in children) a F. A. of 
90°. Hgyptian form. 
Remarks.—In addition to the preceding details, it remains to offer some general obser- 
vations on the size and configuration of the head, together with a tabular view of the 
whole series of crania, arranged in the first place, according to their sepulchral localities, 
and, in the second, in reference to their national affinities. 
Ethnographic Table of one hundred ancient Egyptian Crania.* 
Sepulchral Localities. No, : Egyptian.| Pelasgic. | Semitic. | Mixed. | Negroid.| Negro. Idiot. 
Memphis, 26 44,40 ‘| 1 1 
Maabdeh, 4. 1 - 2 
Abydos, A 2 1 2” 
‘Thebes, 55 | 30] 10 4 4 5 2 
Ombos, 3 3 
Phila, 4 2 1 1 
Debdd, 4 4 
100 A9 29 6 5 8 1 2 
‘_* It will be observed, on comparing this table with the original one published in the Proceedings of the Society for 
December, 1842, (and since republished in Mr. Gliddon’s Ancient Egypt,) that there is a great difference in the 
relative number of Pelasgic and Egyptian heads; which fact has been already adverted to, and explained, (page 96.) I 
have been governed in the present classification, by the manifest presence of the Egyptian physiognomy, even in those 
instances in which it appears to be blended with an equal and even preponderating Pelasgic character. It will be ob- 
served, however, that the whole number of Caucasian heads is nearly the same in both tables; and that the relative 
Negro and Negroid crania is unaltered. 
proportion of Semitic, 
