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Post by Atlantid on Jan 1, 2013 22:48:03 GMT -5
The Egyptian Classification of the Races of Man Reginald Stuart Poole The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 16, (1887), pp. 370-379 Note: Poole has some commentary. He points out the similarity between 8. "A Man from Punt" and 1. the Egyptian from the Seti I wall scene representing the Egyptian ratu, mankind (their idea was that their own physical image was the norm and so represented "mankind", while others deviated from it). Poole suggests that the Egyptians considered the Puntites also ratu.
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Post by Atlantid on Jan 1, 2013 22:54:08 GMT -5
The above paper isn't free access (you need a JSTOR pass). I copied those drawings from the article. However the following is free access: www.jstor.org/stable/3014324The Ethnology of Egypt Reginald Stuart Poole Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London Vol. 2, (1863) (pp. 260-264)
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Post by Noah on Jan 2, 2013 23:49:51 GMT -5
Quality scans. Thanks! Now for Poole's description of the Egyptian or Eastern Hamitic type: "The heads on Plate VII, 1, 2, 4, 5, are taken from the Tomb of King Seti; they are from a mythological scene, and are types representing four races of man. Two other subjects, Nos. 3 and 6, are representations from other frescoes in the Tombs of the Kings. No. 1 is the Egyptian race, Nos. 2 and 3 Semitic, No. 4 Negro, Nos. 5 and 6 Northerners. In Plate VIII are representations from historical scenes of divisions of these races. The Egyptians class the four races thus, according to colour: 1st, the Egyptians or redskins; 2nd, the Semites or yellow-skins; 3rd, the Negroes or black men; and 4th, the Northerners or white men. We are only entitled to say four races by allowing the Egyptians to call themselves a distinct race, which they did, as they considered themselves to be the race of man. (I). They were marked by their small beard and moustache, and their abundant crisp black hair; they are identical with the Copts. Two other nations come under the Egyptian type: First, the old Cushite inhabitants of South Arabia and the opposite coast of Africa, who traded with the Egyptians. Plate VIII, No. 8, is a representation one of these, date 1600 BC. This subject is taken from the famous reliefs of the expedition of Queen Hatshepsut up the Red Sea and beyond to the Somali coast. The character of face is similar to the Egyptian, but less refined. Secondly, the Phoenicians, who are almost identical with the Egyptians in colour, and can only be distinguished from them by details of costume, such as the wearing of boots; some are lighter in colour than the Egyptians, being a northern variety of the race. We have, therefore, these two families allied to the Egyptian type, inhabitants of the coasts of Arabia and Africa on the Red Sea, and the Phoenicians; but no other nation can safely be classed in this race."
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