[64]. Cory, Frag. p. 114.
[65]. For the proofs that these effigies are really portraits of the persons represented, the reader is referred to Rosellini’s chapter entitled, “Iconografia dei Faraouni e dei re Greci de ’Egitto,” in his Monumenti, M. S., Vol. II., p. 461. Portraits of the same king sometimes differ very considerably from each other, I grant, but the instances are few in comparison, and may have been intended to designate different periods of life; nor are these differences greater than we are accustomed to see in the physiognomy of modern kings, as represented on their respective coins and medals. But even if it could be demonstrated that the Nilotic paintings are not portraits, it would not diminish their ethnographic value, for they at least delineate the characteristic physiognomy of the Egyptians. See also, Champollion, “Lettres écrites de l’Egypte et de la Nubie.”
[66]. Champollion, Monuments, Tom. I., Plate [I]. The annexed figure is greatly enlarged from Champollion’s drawing. See also Rosellini, M. R., Plate XXV., in which the eye is wanting.
[67]. Champollion-Figéac, Egypte, p. 293.
[68]. Rosellini, M. C., Plate 33.
[69]. Antiquités, Tom. I., Plate 68.
[70]. Rosellini, M. C., Plate 13.
[71]. Idem. M. R., Plate 96.
[72]. Rosellini, M. R., Plate 158.
[73]. The Semitic race extended from the Mediterranean sea on the west to the confines of Persia on the East, and doubtless possessed great variety of feature and complexion. They derive their collective name from Shem, “from whom, in the table of nations in the book of Genesis, entitled Toldoth Beni Noah, many of them are declared to have descended.” Prichard, Researches, II., p. 208, 2d ed. The principal of these nations, adds Dr. Prichard, were those of Elam, to the north-west of the Persian Gulf; the Assyrians; the Chasdim, or Chaldeans, who are the ancestors of the Hebrews and Arabs; the Lydians; and the Syrians, or people of Aram. They are also called, collectively, Syro-Arabian nations.