124 OBSERVATIONS ON EGYPTIAN ETHNOGRAPHY, 
give them as I find them, and in the hope of being able to institute the desired compa- 
risons on some future occasion. 
Stature.—Mr. Pettigrew’s measurements seem to prove, what the size of the head also 
indicates, that the Egyptians were of the middle stature. He met with no instance 
which, even enveloped in its bandages, would measure more than five feet six inches. 
Perhaps, however, sufficient allowance has not been made for the contraction of the 
joints, and especially of the intervertebral substance, which in a state of complete desic- 
cation, would diminish the length of the body at least two inches. In the year 1833, I 
purchased of the heirs of the late Senior Lébolo, a dilapidated mummy from Thebes, of 
which I prepared the skeleton, now preserved in the Anatomical Museum of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. It measures about five feet ten inches, and is in every respect 
beautifully developed excepting the cranium, which is small in proportion and of 
indifferent conformation.* 
Age.—lIt is a familiar fact that the mummies of children are rarely found in the Ezyp- 
tian catacombs, at least in comparison with those of adults; a circumstance which has 
not been satisfactorily explained. 
Champollion Figeac observes that the Egyptians were a long-lived people, as proved 
by their funereal inscriptions which frequently speak of the dead as having passed the 
age of fourscore years; a remark which derives some confirmation from the following 
table, wherein the crania in my possession are proximately classed according. to their 
respective ages :— 
From one year old to five, 3 
From five to ten, : , ’ ; , 5 
From ten to fifteen, , ‘ : : ; ? A 
From fifteen to twenty, ; i : ‘ 9 
From twenty to thirty, . ; . . , weccsseh 
From thirty to forty, . : : j : ; 25 
From forty to fifty, . ; ; H ; r——t 
From fifty to sixty, . ; 2 
From sixty to seventy, . ; ; ; : , 2 
From seventy to eighty, 3 
From eighty to ninety, 2 
Having thus identified, in the catacombs, the remains of the various people who con- 
stituted the Nilotic family, we proceed in the next place to trace them on the monu- 
ments of Egypt and Nubia; and as the value of this comparison must depend on the 
fidelity of the artists who have copied the paintings and bas-reliefs, we shall derive the 
following illustrations, with one or two exceptions, from the admirable works of Cham- 
pollion, Rosellini, and Hoskins. 
* T have reason to believe that this cranium, which I obtained separate from the rest of the mummy, belonged to 
another Egyptian skeleton subsequently procured from the same source. 
