454 REPORT — 1887. 



Auhal. Mariette regards this as the Avalites of the Greeks, south of 

 Bab el Mandeb. This seems very likely. There is a Mount Awalu, east 

 of Shoa, a similar name. Cast 107. 



—No. 4. I^SJP (182, pi. 26, 'Karnak'), Amubes, or, if 



be det., Abes. Perhaps J ' may be the celebrated god Bes of the land of 

 Pun. Cast 108. 



—No. 5. |J» (181, pi. 26, 'Karnak' |J^, Maspero. Perhaps, 



as Maspero suggests, a variant of 8 JfTl V' P^- ^^O- The last is No. 77 

 South List, in which Mariette identified the Ko^-q ifiTropiov of Ptolemy, 



the Hhabo of modern maps, j I*, Hebnu may be the Heban of the 

 Somali land. Cast 109. 



—No. 6. |P*I^ (No. 180, pi. 26, 'Karnak'). The termination I^ 



is found in Turses (above), and in Purses in the list of Seti, No. 11, 

 which I think may be Mount Farsis, east of the River Hawash in Somali 

 land. Our Asteses may perhaps be traced by its former element which 

 we find in the rivers Asta-boras (Atbara), Asta-pus, and Asta-sobas, the 

 latter part of which survives as Sobat. These are all eastern tributaries 

 of the Nile, and water the region with which we are concerned. 

 Cast 110. 



— No. 7. ^ ^ <::=> , Aar or Aal, ' or rather,' as Prof. Maspero suggests 

 to me, ' laro, the river.' Now we find V V *=^^^ on the pillars of the 



temple at Soleb, built by Thothmes III. Is it possible that \ 5v "^^^^ is 

 marked in maps as Iran, near Soleb on the Nile ? Cast 111. 



Next we have ]^ '^ , doubtless the ]J^'^ No. 64, South List in 



Pun. If the initial vowel has dropped, it may very well be Dand in 

 the Somali land, east of Harar. Cast 113. 



The next name is to be read „ — * -^^ 5N) Mentu. It is No. 80 in 



South List, and it seems to me that it may be the Mundu mentioned 

 under No. 14, above, in our list. Cast 114. The last name is defec- 

 tive. 



It is very clear in the main to what regions our series of eighteen heads 

 belong. I have hope to know more before the Manchester meeting, but 

 have not yet seen the squeezes or casts from them, as they are not yet 

 ready, and my study of this part of our subject has been very much 

 restricted in time and opportunity. I wish, however, to give material 

 for further study in this hasty abstract. 



In the Egyptian portraiture of southern peoples, we have the same 

 striking contrasts of various races as in the Africa of to-day. Take as 

 extreme terms the refined faces and upright slender figures of the chiefs 



