Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon.

  • Nott, Josiah C. (Josiah Clark), 1804-1873.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Types of mankind or, Ethnological researches : based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history, illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz; W. Usher; and H. S. Patterson / by J. C. Nott, and Geo. R. Gliddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    477/796 (page 429)
    Fia. 268. Inner Shell. Fia. 269. elucidation in the Letter from Mr. Gliddon about the Papyrus found on the Boston Mum- my, published in the Boston Evening Transcript, August 21st and 22d, 1850. A copy of this article is appended to the mummy, ■which, with all its documentary cerements, now lies open to inspection at the Anatomical Museum of the Louisiana University. Fac-similes of all the hieroglyphical inscriptions on this mummy were forwarded by Mr. Gliddon to Mr. Birch; and the only material emendation of the former's readings, added by this erudite hierologist, is, that the legend on the papyrus designates the corpse as that of the Chief of the Artificers of the abode of Ammon, /. e. Thebes. Submitted, at Philadelphia, to the scientific scrutiny of the late Dr. Morton, this mum mied body was not only pronounced to be unequi- vocally identified with the reign of Osorkon III., by finding the cartouche or oval of that king stamped, in four different places, on a leather cross, placed dia- gonally on the thorax in front; but the same autho- rity also declares, there are 130 embalmed Egyptian heads in the collection of the Academy, but none of them can be even approximately dated; whence the great interest that attaches itself to the present ex- ample. 485 And finally, on the 23d of January, 1852, the whole of these archaeological facts have been con- firmed, at New Orleans, by the personal investiga- tion of Monsieur J. J. Ampere, whose opinions in Egyptology are decisive.486 Mr. Gliddon pointed out to me, on this corpse, the only absolute confirmation, he says, of Scripture, with which long studies of Egyptian lore have made him personally acquainted. All male mummies comply with the ordinances of Genesis xli. 14 ; and with Gen. xvii. 11; Exod. iv. 25— but Got-thothi's illustrates the accuracy of Eze- kiel's description of an Egyptian — xvi. 26; and xxiii. 19, 20. These Figs., 268 and 269, are copies of the mummy-cases, one is gilt; but bitumen had obliterated the legends. Outer Case. The face of the inner That the influx of Asiatics into the Valley of the Nile commenced long before the foundation of the Empire under Menes — that is, prior to b. c. 4000 — there can be no further question ; and that amal- gamations of foreign with the Mle's domestic races commenced at a pre-historic epoch, is now equally certain. Hence it is evident, that it must be often impossible to define some crania of these blended Egyptian races with precision, so great is the intermixture of primi- tive types. The facts however, drawn by Morton from the monu- ments and crania, prove, that the Egyptians-proper possessed small, elongated heads, with receding foreheads, and an average internal capacity of 80 cubic inches. Such view is fortified by the resem- blance of this type to the modern native races of Egypt and surround- ing countries ; as the Fellahs, the Bedawees on both sides of the river and in the western oases, the Nubians, Berbers, &c. Their skulls have been already figured [supra, pp. 226, 227].