Chateaubriand's description of the Bedouin--"_la tete ovale, le front haut et argue, le nez aquilia, les yeux grandes et coupe en amandes, le regard humide et singulierement doux_" would serve in many respects equally well for a description of the physiognomy of the Assyrians, as they appear upon the monuments.

The traits, in fact, are for the most part common to the Semitic race generally, and not distinctive of any particular subdivision of it.

They are seen now alike in the Arab, the Jew, and the Chalaedeans of Kurdistan, while anciently they not only characterized the Assyrians, but probably belonged also to the Phoenicians, the Syrians, and other minor Semetic races.

It is evident, even from the mannered and conventional sculptures of Egypt, that the physiognomy was regarded as characteristic of the western Asiatic races.

Three captives on the monuments of Amenophis III., represented as belonging to the Patana (people of Bashan ?), the Asuru (Assyrians), and the Karukamishi (people of Carchemish), present to us the sane style of face, only slightly modified by Egyptian ideas.
[PLATE.