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HISTORY OF SCULPTURE. 



The Museum possesses a series of plaster casts of the most 

 famous sculptures of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, and 

 Romans, designed to illustrate the history of glyptic art. It 

 consists of the tablet of the Sun God of Sippara, several slabs 

 with reliefs, the Wounded Lioness, Assyrian; the column of 

 Hammurabi and the circular monument of Tello, Babylonian; 

 the lid of the sarcophagus of Sebaksi, the recumbent lion, the 

 lid of the sarcophagus of Ankhur-ferabra, Hapi, God of the 

 Nile, Horus with Altar, Egyptian; the Harpy Tomb, the head 

 of the Discobolus, the Laocoon group, the Two Eates, the Her- 

 mes of Andros, Orpheus, the Eleusinian relief, Ceres, eleven 

 casts from Aretine moulds in the possession of the Boston 

 Museum of Fine Arts, Greek ; four casts from the Arch of Trajan, 

 Roman; and a cast of the statue of Moses by Michelangelo, 

 Italian, 



