The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie.
- John Stuart Stuart-Glennie
- Date:
- [1887]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![as well as also by a philological][examination of the language of the Egyptian inscriptions.’ As to the Chaldeans,^ if by that name I may distinguish the Kushite ® founders of that first Babylonian Empire which preceded the later Baby- mummies, are held to indicate connection with the Caucasian Family of Mankind,’ Brugsch, History of Egypt, v. i. p. 8. So Maspero : ‘ La race egyptienne se rattache aux peuples blancs de I’Asie anterieuse par ses caracteres elhnographiques,’ Hist. Ancienne, p. i6. And see particularly Lepsius, Nubische Grammatik, Einleitung, in which he refutes the theory of the African origin of the Egyptians as advanced by Hartmann, Die Vdlker Africa's, ss. 3 flg. For reproductions of portraits see Lepsius, Denkmdler, bd. vi. ; Brugsch, Geographische Inschriften, bd. ii. ; and above all, the photographs by Mr. Flinders Petrie, Racial Types from Egypt, 1887. ‘ According to Lepsius, the Egyptian language indicates that the Egpytian Race belongs to a Stock unquestionably allied to both the Semitic and Aryan Stocks ; and that to the same Family as the Egyptian belong the Languages of the Libyan tribes of North Africa. See his Zwei sprachvergleichende Abhandlungen ; and also Schwartze, Das alte Aegypten ; and Bunsen, Egypt's Place in Univ. Hist. With respect to the more special relationship of Egyptian to Semitic, see pro, Benfey, Ueber das Verhdlt. der dgypt. Sprache zum semitisthen Sprachsta- 7nen ; E. Meier, Hebrdisches Wurzelwdrterbuch, Anhang; Bottischer, Wurzel- forschungen; De Rouge, Sur I'Inscription du Tombeau cTAhtnes,; and contra, Pott, Ewald, and Wearich, as cited by Renan in support of his own views. Hist, de Langues Semitiques, 1. i. ch. ii. § 4, p. 74. ^ According to Lenormant, in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dictiomiaire des An- tiquites, the name, Chaldaei or XaASaioi, has had three significations. First, it signified the people called Kaldi in the cuneiform texts ; the Kasdim of one of the oldest passages of Genesis (xi. 28), and the people whom Hellanicus counted among the primitive elements of the population of Chaldea. Then it meant the Sacerdotal Tribe or Caste, using still the otherwise dead language which is now variously called Accadian, Sumerian, and Accado-Sumerian ; the Tribe or Caste which, on the downfall of the Assyrian Empire, gave again to Babylonia a Chaldean Dynasty, of which the most illustrious representatives were Nebopolassar and Nebuchodo- rossor, of whose Court we get interesting information in the Book of Daniel, late as is its date. Last of all, from the time of Alexander the Great, and particularly after the visit of the Chaldean priest and magus, as well as historian, Berossos, to Athens—where a statue was officially erected to him in consequence of the impression he made there by his predictions and inventions ; (Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 37 ; and Quaranta, L'orologio a sole di Berose scoperto in Pompeii 1854)— the name Chaldean came to mean Prophet, Diviner, and Magician. But see E. Schrader, Die Abstanwmng der Chaldder und die Ursitze der Setniten in Zeitsch. d. d. Alorgenl. Gesellsch. bd. xxvii. (1873) pp. 397 %• I venture, however, to dissent from his conclusion that there was no connection between the Chaldeans of the south and those later-mentioned Chaldeans of the north referred to by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22473233_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
