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Show llG GENERAL REJ\fARKS ON ICONOGRAPIIY. style, has failed to reproduce tho harmonious delicacy of tho originals. They can be consulted in the Denkmale1·.71 Besides these four royal headl:l none is more interesting for the ethnologisttbanafifLh (Plate VIIT,fig. Fi~. JG. 1], not only for tho beautiful carving of the expressive features of the Queen-mother of that Dynasty, but peculiarly because it proves with how little foundation NoFRE-Am has been taken for a negro princess ! She was always recorded with groat veneration by her descendants, and often portrayed by them in company with king AAnMES, the founder of the Dynasty and liberator of Egypt, and in many of those reliefs her :f~tco is colored black,1e owing to some reason AKHEN-ATEN. unknown to us; her features, however, as well in reliefs as in statues, belong to that "Caucasian" class termed Slwmitic. In the reign of the heretic BEXEN-ATEN, Alcltenaten, the monotheistic worshipper of the sun's disk-whom some imagine to be J oscph's Pharaoh. - art is still more individual and cbaracteristic,-so much so, as to border on caricature and ugliness; for instance, in the portrait of the king himsolf;73 [16] of whom a most beautiful statuette adorns the Salle ltistoriquc du Louvre. TI Also, from RosJJLLJNJ's copies, in Types of lJlanki11d, pp. 145-51. 7 2 Thus for instance in OsnunN, Afonumental M8tory of Egypt, II., Frontispiece-reduced from Ll<ll'SJUS, Denkmiiler aus l'Egypten, AbLh. III., Bl. 1. [Compare her likeness in 'flype<J of Afankind, p. 184, fig. 88; and p. 145, fig. 45; with noLo 128, p. 718. NESTOR L'llo·m hn.~ somewhere conjectured, that, when this sacred queen is painted black, she appears oftel' death in tho elmrnctor of" Isis fml~J)re"-figUI'n.tivo ofhornotberworldcspousal by Lhc black 0Airis, lord of Hades; and this idea, of n "black Isis," wn.s perpetuated, untilln.st century, through our European middlo-ngos, iu the many basrtltie sllttuos of Lhat goddess, roprosenLctl suckling the now-born Horus, imported fr·om Egypt 1\t gronL c:ost, which superstition oonsocmtod in ronny ConLinental churches as imll.gcs of the black Virgin nud her Son. cr. MAURY'S L!gendrs picuses dtt !lfoycii-Ag~, Pari a, 1843, p. 88, note 2; n.nd MJLT.IN.-G. R. G. J 73 'J'.ypesof Afa1rkilld, p.147, fig. 55; pp.170-2; andnotosNos.151, 108-7. [More recent roscarchos, here again, nrc removing some of the unnccountablo embarrassments which the straugo personv.gc, in his name, epoch, and physiologicnl poouliariLios, has oocnsionod, for 25 years (L'H8TJ~, Lellres icrites d'Egypte en 1838 et 1880, Paris, 1840; pp. 58-78), among EgypLologists. It now sooms ccrtnin, 1st, (13uuosoJJ, Reisebericlrte, p. 188: -MAUllY, Revue des Deux !lfondts, Sept., 1855, p. 1068 :-1\IARI;J!ITTE, Bulleti11 .ArcMologiqll6 d6 l' Athena:um Fran9ais, Juno, 1855, pp. 56--57), thnt, instead of Bexen-atm, his namo should be read Aklunaten; through which meliorntion ho becomes assimilated to the t1oo A~•Xi(Jq, of ManoLho's lists;- and 2d, possible, that his "anomalous fcnturcs," as Norr .... :.·. ··:,.·· . . :. .. ·.· . ~. ·.. · :.: .. ,:.·· Nefer - hetcp I. (Berlin Museum .) |