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Show 100 ON SOME OF TilE years of time, with the ordinary cla s of black slaves still imported from the upper Nile-basin for sale in the bazaars at Caho. Both th so monuments bclon<r to the XVIIth and XXth dynasties, which ·mTi cl th arms of the Pluu·aohs to the upper Nile and to the Euphrates. The other arListical nations of antiquity knew little of tl10 N cgro-ra ·c. They did not come before Solomon's epoch into immediate a11cl constaut contact with it. We sec soon after, however, a negro in an Assyrian battle- cone of the time of SAitaoN, at Khorsabad [90].209 He might have b en exported from Memphis by Phcnnician slave-dealers to Asia, Fig. 90. where he fell :fighting for his KllORSADAD-NEORO. master against the Assyrians; who did not fail to perpetuate the memory of snch an extraordinary feature as a blaclc warr.ior must have been to tlt m. On that remarkable reli ef of the tomb of Darius ITystaspcs, at Pcrsopolis, (11upra, p.? fig. 35) we have seen the negro as a r l'''escntativc of Africa. 'l'hc Greeks seldom drew blacks: still, on b autifnl vases of the l3riLi h Museum we meet with the well-known negro features in a battle-scene. [See the annexed plate IX, fig. 1 ]. Another such vase, with the representation of Hercules slaying nCO'J·ocs, has been published by Micali.210 Etru can potters, who, as alr ady remarked, liked to draw Ori nt.:'Ll types, moulded vases into the shape of a negro head, and coupled it sometimes with the head of white males or females. The l3riti h Mw;cum ontains several of those very characteristic utensils. [Soc Plate IX, figs. 2, 3, 4]. Those two Etrurian vases are not older thall the 4th century D. c.-probably between 200 and 250 D.o. The medal-room of the British Museum contains, besides, throe silver coins of Delphi, age about 400 n. o.; having on one face tho head of a nogl'O, with tho woolly hair admirably indicated; and on the other a goat's head seen in front-view, between two dolpl1ins, the usual typo of Delphi. We know likewise several Roman cameos, which r pr sent n groes with all the refined clc<rance of tho imperial epoch [91]. Thus we possess oili,O'ios of negroes drawn by Aix diftcrcnt nations of antiquity: Egyptians, Assyrians, PerAians, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans; from about the 18th con- 200 BOTTA, Monument de Ni11ive, pL 88. 21o Monumenti A11ticM. 2 r I . : ·.· ·. ·..:.: ·. . :.·. .: . ~ .. ·.= . ~ .. ~.. . . c> : •• •• •• ·:·· .::~:~·;;::~ ·.·· ··... :. . If:':: l·~ .:'\ ::.: ::_.. Et ruscan Vase. 3 / F. lru!'ita n dr1nkn1q-ja rg. \ Brli1 sh Museurn ) |