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Title: 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
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873 Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Usher, W Patterson, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1815-1854 Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857
Subjects: Anthropology Continental Population Groups Religion and Science
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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128 PHYSICAL HISTORY OF TIIE JEWS. of this inherent law of artistic progression, would of itself classifymonumental Assyria as, chronologically, a succedaneum of Egypt;and vindicate De Longperiers conclusions of Assyrian modernness,no less than Rawlinsons acknowledgments of Egyptian antiquity.95 The combined action of art and of the prevalence, in and aroundMesopotamia, of a preponderating type which approaches the beau-ideal of Semitic humanity, may be seen by comparing the captives ofAssyrian triumphs with the common soldiery of Ninevite armies.Thus, this Syrian (Fig. 20), with his leathern scull-cap, whom a pass- Fig. 21. Fig. 20.
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Syrian Captive.96 Assteian Soldiers.97 age in Herodotus identifies with the people Milyee,98 or else of ad-jacent Cilicia, could not otherwise be distinguished from commonAssyrian spearmen (Fig. 21) attacking a stronghold which, if not inSamaria, belongs to the same mountainous region. Both drawingsare from Khorsabad, and the expeditions of Sargan, late in the eighthcentury b. c. But it is in the likenesses of the patricians and of royalty wherein,partly owing to more pains-taking treatment by artists, and partly to ahigher caste of race, that the pure Assyrian type becomes vigorously scolpito. Sargans minister, (Fig. 22) probably his Vizeer, displays the samenoble blood as the King (Fig. 23) himself.99 Above all the portraits of Ninevite sovereigns discovered, that ofSargan is the most interesting; 1st, because it was the first royallikeness unearthed from Khorsabad byBoTTA;100 2ndly, because itwas the first whose cuneatic legends were ascribed to the besieger ofA&hdod by a most

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