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As I believe this to be a most important ethnographic indication, and one which points 
to the vast body of the Egyptian people, I subjoin four additional heads of priests from a 
tomb at Thebes, of the eighteenth dynasty. We are forcibly impressed with the delicate 
features and oblique eye of the left hand personage, and with the ruder but characteristic 
outline of the other figures, in which the prominent face, though strongly drawn, is 
essentially Egyptian.* 
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The annexed outlines, which present more pleasing examples 
of the same ethnographic character, are copied from the tomb 
of Titi, at Thebes, and date with the remote era of Thotmes 
IV.t They represent five fowlers in the act of drawing their 
net over a flock of birds. The long, flowing hair is in keeping 
with the facial traits, which latter are also well characterized in 
the subjoined drawings, derived from monuments of different 
epochs and localities. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. 
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Fig. 1, is the head of a weaver, from the paintings in the very ancient tomb of Roti 
and Menoph at Beni-Hassan, wherein the same cast of countenance is reiterated without 
number.t 
Fig. 2, a wine-presser, 18 also from Beni-Hassan, and dates with Osortasen, more than 
2000 years before the Christian era.§ 
Fig. 3, is a cook, who in the tomb of Rameses the Fourth, at Thebes, is represented 
with many others in the active duties of his vocation. |] 
Fig. 4. I have selected this head as an exaggerated or caricatured illustration of the 
same type of physiognomy. It is one of the goat-herds painted in the tomb of Roti, at 
Beni-Hassan. 
* Rosellini, M. C. Plate 126. + Idem. Vol. 1, Plate 4. { Idem. M. C. Plate 41. 
§ Idem. M. C. Plate 37, || Idem. M. C. Plate 86. I Idem. M. C. Plate 29, 
