The paintings upon the walls of the New Kingdom tombs at Thebes constitute the principal source for our knowledge of the appearance of the inhabitants of Palestine, Syria, and the upper Euphrates during the second half of the second millennium B. C. Well over two hundred individual figures on these paintings from twenty-one of the numbered tombs 1 are sufficiently preserved to serve as evidence for the appearance of the foreign peoples to the northeast of Egypt. The dates of the tombs, covering roughly a century and a half, can usually be fixed approximately within the reign of a king, or in a few cases to the reign of two kings.2 The importance of these paintings for a knowledge of the appearance of Asiatics was emphasized by W. M1ax Miiller as early as 1893.3 Later Miiller undertook to copy and to study in more detail some of the more important paintings.4 A more thorough attempt to record photographically the evidence of the Theban tombs was made by the so-called Eduard Meyer Fremdvolker-Expedition, under the direction of Max Burchardt and Friedrich Koch during the winter of 1912-13.5 Photo-