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temple at Carthage of two millenniums ago and representing a lion 

 attacking a wild ass. On either side are facsimiles of the Rosetta 

 Stone, and various Assyro-Babylonian and Palestinian monuments, 

 while mounted on a screen is a large relief map of Palestine with two 

 Palestine inscriptions, surrounded by a series of geographical and 

 ethnographical photogravures. Three floor cases contain the more 

 valuable Egyptian antiquities — a mummy, an original Greco- 

 Egyptian painting, a facsimile of the Book of the Dead, inscribed 

 papyri, potteries, stone implements, etc., while wall cases at either 

 end of the alcove hold several well-preserved Egyptian mummy 

 cases or cofiins. The available wall space is used for reliefs in plas- 

 ter illustrating phases of Egyptian and Assyrian history and my- 

 thology. In the passage adjoining the alcove are replicas of two 

 colossal composite figures, the winged human-headed lion and bull, 

 which once guarded the entrance to an Assyrian temple or palace, 

 with a series of Egyptian and Assyro-Babylonian statues between 

 them, the series being flanked at either end by casts of colossal 

 statues from Syria-Hadad and Panamnu. The otherwise unoccu- 

 pied wall space on both sides of the passage is covered with reliefs. 



In the large western hall a continuous wall case on the east side 

 contains in succession, beginning at the north, Egyptian antiquities, 

 such as statues and busts of divinities and kings ; a stone sphinx and 

 various funerary paraphernalia; Assyro-Babylonian sculptures and 

 utensils; Biblical coins and gems; a collection of Bibles and musical 

 instruments of the Bible; Italian potteries; and reduced casts of 

 upwards of 70 pieces of statuary and bas-reliefs illustrating Greco- 

 Roman sculpture and mythology. Ranged on bases at the south 

 end of the hall are casts of large sculpture (the Laocoon, Hermes 

 of Andros, etc.), a model of the Parthenon, and a cast of a capital 

 from the Temple of Castor in Rome. A selection of Hittite and 

 Greek bas-reliefs is displayed on the wall space above the long case. 



The floor space in this hall is occupied by two rows of cases, one 

 extending through the middle, the other being on the window side. 

 Interspaced between the 9 principal cases of the central row are small 

 upright cases containing small collections of Italian bronzes, glass- 

 ware, terra-cotta, mosaics and tiles, and potteries and tiles from 

 Turkestan. In the main series are installed successively the finer 

 and older figured Greek potteries, ranging in date from the 7th to 

 the 4th century B. C; Greek potteries and Etruscan bronzes; terra- 

 cotta figurines and bronzes; bronzes found in various parts of Europe 

 but mostly of Roman origin; a collection of stone and bone imple- 

 ments, bronzes and potteries from Troy, and a similar collection from 

 Armenia* extensive series of Egyptian neolithic stone implements, 

 and a few stone implements and other objects from Palestine, attrib- 

 uted to the paleolithic age; a large series of stone implements and 



