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EEPOET—1887.
Bab el Mandeb. This seems very likely. There is a Mount Awalu, east
of Shoa, a similar name. Cast 107.
—No. 4. ^iSlSsJP (182, pi. 26, 'Karnak'), Amubes, or, if ££S
be dot., Abes. Perhaps may be the celebrated god Bes of the land of
Pun. Cast 108.
—No. 5. |Js (181, pi. 26, 'Karnak' |J"V MasPer°' Perhaps,
as Maspero suggests, a variant of ^JlT"!^! P"- 24.). The last is No. 77
South List, in which Mariette identified the Ko/3ij i/xiropiov of Ptolemy,
the Hhabo of modern maps. j[J*> Hebnu may be the Heban of the
Somali land. Cast 109.
—No. 6. ^P*I^I (No. 180, pi. 26,' Karnak '). The termination ZZZ
is found in Turses (above), and in Purses in the list of Seti, No. 11,
which I think may be Mount Parsis, east of the River Hawash in Somali
land. Our Asteses may perhaps be traced by its former element which
we find in the rivers Asta-boras (Atbara), Asta-pus, and Asta-sobas, the
latter part of which survives as Sobat. These are all eastern tributaries
of the Nile, and water the region with which we are concerned. Cast 110.
—No. 7. { <=>, Aar or Aal, ' or rather,' as Prof. Maspero suggests
to me, 'Iaro, the river.' Now we find J^J^*^" 011 the pillars of the
temple at Soleb, built by Thothmes III. Is it possible that \ <=> is
marked in maps as Irau, near Soleb on the Nile ? Cast 111.
Next we have y , doubtless the No. 64, South List in
Pun. If the initial vowel has dropped, it may very well be Dand in
the Somali land, east of Harar. Cast 113.
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The next name is to be read - -w^ Mentu. It is No. 80 m
South List, and it seems to me that it may be the Mundu mentioned
under No. 14, above, in our list. Cast 114. The last name is defective.
It is very clear in the main to what regions our series of eighteen heads
belong. I have hope to know more before the Manchester meeting, but
have not yet seen the squeezes or casts from them, as they are not yet
ready, and my study of this part of our subject has been very much
restricted in time and opportunity. I wish, however, to give material
for further study in this hasty abstract.
In the Egyptian portraiture of southern peoples, we have the same
striking contrasts of various races as in the Africa of to-day. Take as
extreme terms the refined faces and upright slender figures of the chiefs
of Pun, in phot. 743, from the wall of Horemheb of the Eighteenth
dynasty, and any of the utter negroes of the tableaux.
There is a point in this phot. 743 to which I wish to direct attention.
These ambassadors, nobles of Pun, wear the poculiar pointed beard,
EEPOET—1887.
Bab el Mandeb. This seems very likely. There is a Mount Awalu, east
of Shoa, a similar name. Cast 107.
—No. 4. ^iSlSsJP (182, pi. 26, 'Karnak'), Amubes, or, if ££S
be dot., Abes. Perhaps may be the celebrated god Bes of the land of
Pun. Cast 108.
—No. 5. |Js (181, pi. 26, 'Karnak' |J"V MasPer°' Perhaps,
as Maspero suggests, a variant of ^JlT"!^! P"- 24.). The last is No. 77
South List, in which Mariette identified the Ko/3ij i/xiropiov of Ptolemy,
the Hhabo of modern maps. j[J*> Hebnu may be the Heban of the
Somali land. Cast 109.
—No. 6. ^P*I^I (No. 180, pi. 26,' Karnak '). The termination ZZZ
is found in Turses (above), and in Purses in the list of Seti, No. 11,
which I think may be Mount Parsis, east of the River Hawash in Somali
land. Our Asteses may perhaps be traced by its former element which
we find in the rivers Asta-boras (Atbara), Asta-pus, and Asta-sobas, the
latter part of which survives as Sobat. These are all eastern tributaries
of the Nile, and water the region with which we are concerned. Cast 110.
—No. 7. { <=>, Aar or Aal, ' or rather,' as Prof. Maspero suggests
to me, 'Iaro, the river.' Now we find J^J^*^" 011 the pillars of the
temple at Soleb, built by Thothmes III. Is it possible that \ <=> is
marked in maps as Irau, near Soleb on the Nile ? Cast 111.
Next we have y , doubtless the No. 64, South List in
Pun. If the initial vowel has dropped, it may very well be Dand in
the Somali land, east of Harar. Cast 113.
^^^^^ X -^L
The next name is to be read - -w^ Mentu. It is No. 80 m
South List, and it seems to me that it may be the Mundu mentioned
under No. 14, above, in our list. Cast 114. The last name is defective.
It is very clear in the main to what regions our series of eighteen heads
belong. I have hope to know more before the Manchester meeting, but
have not yet seen the squeezes or casts from them, as they are not yet
ready, and my study of this part of our subject has been very much
restricted in time and opportunity. I wish, however, to give material
for further study in this hasty abstract.
In the Egyptian portraiture of southern peoples, we have the same
striking contrasts of various races as in the Africa of to-day. Take as
extreme terms the refined faces and upright slender figures of the chiefs
of Pun, in phot. 743, from the wall of Horemheb of the Eighteenth
dynasty, and any of the utter negroes of the tableaux.
There is a point in this phot. 743 to which I wish to direct attention.
These ambassadors, nobles of Pun, wear the poculiar pointed beard,