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five miles to the west, on the pilgrim road to Medina and Mecca, with an in- 

 scription of Ahmed ibn-Tulim (a.d. 868-894). Up the valley to the north-east, 

 scratched in greenstone porphyry, are ' so-called ' Wusuni, or ' tribal marks ' (photo- 

 graphs shown). Further to the west are the ' Gold Mines of Midian ' of Sir R. Burton. 

 There are three mistakes in this appellation. The quartz is not auriferous ; the 

 holes are not mines; the region was never called Midian. To the south, iu the 

 Wadi Hamz are ruins of a Greco-Roman temple, near a Gebel Kibrit or sulphur 

 mountain, interesting as the only Greco-Roman ruins ever found in Arabia. Pho- 

 tographs of these were also shown. 



FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 



The following Report and Papers were read : — 



1. Report of the Committee for procuring Racial Photographs from the 

 Ancient Egyptian Pictures and Sculptures. — See Reports, p. 439. 



2. Notes on the Accuracy of the Sculptures and Paintings of Races on the 

 Egyptian Monuments. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. 



3. Studies mi some Groups of Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie's Casts and Photo- 

 graphs of Ethnographic Types from Egypt, 1887. ^ By the Rev. Henry 

 George Tomkins. 



The paper treats of local points of interest in Mr. Petrie's collection geogra- 

 phically and ethnologically, under the four heads: I. Westerns; II, Southerns; 

 III. Northerns ; IV. Egyptians. 



I. Westerns. — Tahennu. The clear-complexioned races. Ha-^nehu. People of 

 Mediterranean isles and coasts (later applied to Greeks). Lebu. Libyans, of 

 Hanodtic stock. Early doings as enemies, tributaries, subjects, invaders ; founders 

 of an Egyptian dynasty. Mashuasha. Maxyans. Personal appearance, supposed 

 connection with Northern Syria. Dardani. Trojan leaders, afterwards succeeded 

 by Tsekkriu. Teukrians, in time of Rameses III. Shakalsha, Sicilians. Tuirsha, 

 Tyrsenes, Etruscans. Pulista. Pelasgians, Philistmes (?). 



II. Southerns. — Cush. Among the four typical races. Deshfu, Turses, Tarau, 

 Arma, Awawa, Adal, M'ilm, Khama. Pun, where ? A list of eighteen places, with 

 heads of chiefs, considered, Ezek. xxvii. 19, 20, Yavan of Arabia, &c. Queen 

 Hatasu's expedition, whither, and the port.. The incense trees identified. Her 

 palace-temple at Dei'r-el-Bahri and its style. The tomb of Hui. A group of 

 Pdnite nobles considered. 



III. Northerns. — Menti of Sati, who? Shdsn, Arabs. Their extent and 

 historical importance. Rutens, Lower and Upper, Syria. Lemenen, Lebanon, its 

 people. Khal or Khar, Northern Syria. Keft, Phoenicia, and its people. Am^dr, 

 the Amorite in, and out of, the Bible ; their extent, affinities, and history. Kheta, 

 the Hittites, considered. Their characteristics and connections. 



Asqaiuna. — Kan'dna and its defenders, where ? Dapur, Tabor. Its fortress 

 and defenders. Bita-Anta, Beth-Anath. Marm, Merom, its people. Dimesqu, 

 Damascus. The Karnak lists of Thothmes III. Their very high interest and 

 importance. lanu, where? Shishak's list. Kfidninid. Adir. Yudah-melek, 

 the celebrated name and head, considered. 



IV. E&TPTiANs.— The old kingdom. The Xllth dynasty. The Hyksos. The 

 Patriots and their success. The XVIIIth dynasty. Hatasii, Thothmes III. Khu- 



' This paper is printed (in an abridged form) as an appendix to the Eeport on 

 Mr. Flinders Petrie's Collection of Ethnic Types. 



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