Crania Ægyptiaca: Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments — John Shaqi
Crania Ægyptiaca: Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the MonumentsMorton, Samuel George
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Crania Ægyptiaca: Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments
Morton, Samuel George
Craniology -- Egypt; Ethnology -- Egypt
Plate XII., Fig. 6. (Cat. 821.) A finely moulded head, with a good
frontal development, aquiline nose, and delicate facial bones.—I. C.
74 cubic inches. F. A. 79°. _Pelasgic form._
(Cat. 822.) A juvenile head, of perhaps 12 years, thin and
inequilateral, with a good forehead, and broad, inter-parietal
diameter. The face is broken, and the ethmoid bone imperforate.
_Egyptian form._
(Cat. 824.) A very narrow, infantile head, with brown, soft, curling
hair. The face is deficient, and the head is rather desiccated than
embalmed. _Egyptian form?_
Plate XII., Fig. 7. (Cat. 823.) An unmixed _Negro_, with a narrow,
elongated head, well-developed forehead, short and flat nasal bones,
everted upper jaw, and short, gray, woolly hair. This appears to be
the cranium of a woman of at least 60 years of age. The bones are
thin, and the whole structure remarkably small.—I. C. 73 cubic inches.
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SEVENTH SERIES.
FOUR SKULLS FROM DEBOD, IN NUBIA.
Debod or Deboud is about twelve miles south of Philæ, on the left bank
of the Nile, and in north latitude 24°. It was the site of the ancient
Parembole, and yet possesses some ruins of a once splendid temple of
Ammon.
The following heads were all obtained from a single pit, and from the
rude manner in which they were embalmed and wrapped, Mr. Gliddon (who
obtained them with his own hands) supposes them to have pertained to
people of the lower order.
Plate XII., Fig. 8. (Cat. 829.) Skull of a woman of 50? with a low but
convex forehead, with which the nasal bones have formed a nearly
straight line. The coronal region is low, and the whole osseous
structure strong and rather harsh.—_Egyptian form._ I. C. 70 cubic
inches. F. A. 85°.
Plate XII., Fig. 9. (Cat. 827.) Skull of a man of 40, which strongly
resembles the preceding. The forehead is low, but broad and vertical,
the whole cranium long, the coronal region compressed, the orbits
large, and the upper maxillæ slightly everted.—I. C. 82 cubic inches.
_Egyptian form._
Plate XIII. (Cat. 826.) A fine oval head, with a broad, high, convex
forehead, large, straight nose, and rather prominent maxillæ. On one
side is a mass of long, black hair, much curled, and of a fine
texture.—I. C. 74 cubic inches. F. A. 77°. _Egyptian form._
(Cat. 828.) An elongated, infantile head, with a narrow but vertical
forehead, delicately formed face, very full occiput, and (what is not
uncommon in children) a F. A. of 90°. _Egyptian form._
_Remarks._—In addition to the preceding details, it remains to offer
some general observations on the size and configuration of the head,
together with a tabular view of the whole series of crania, arranged
in the first place, according to their sepulchral localities, and, in
the second, in reference to their national affinities.
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