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EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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Behind these are two torsos with inscriptions, one of black stone, 
bearing the name of an ancient Chaldean king; the other of a goddess, 
found at Kouyunjik, with the name of Asshur-bel-kala, an Assyrian 
monarch. 
On the West wall are casts and sculptures in relief and inscriptions 
from the palace of the Persian monarchs, about 500 b.c. at Persepolis ; 
and on the South wall casts of Pehlevi inscriptions at Hadji Abad 
in its vicinity. 
On the East side of this Transept, is the Khorsabad Com- 
partment, containing monuments from the palace of Sargina, 
the founder of the later Assyrian dynasty, about B.C. 747. 
Two colossal human-headed bulls, corresponding exactly in dimen- 
sions and style with the pair now in the Louvre at Paris, are placed as 
at the entrance of a chamber, and beside these, two colossal figures of 
mythological character. This entire group was obtained from Khorsa- 
bad by Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., in 1849. 
Within the recess thus formed are several bas-reliefs procured from 
the same place in 1847 by Mr. Hector, a merchant residing at 
Baghdad. They are chiefly fragmentary figures from a more extensive 
series, some on a large scale, and retaining remains of colour. The 
horses' heads, facing the window, are richly and carefully finished. 
Below these is the only slab obtained by Mr. Layard from 
Khorsabad ; it is in black marble. 
At the other end are slabs with inscriptions from colossal bulls, 
recording the campaign of Sennacherib against Judaea. 
In the centre is placed a monument, not belonging to the Khor- 
sabad series, a seated figure of Shalmaneser in black basalt, found 
by Mr. Layard about fifty miles below Nimroud on the Tigris, in 
the great mound of Kalah Shergat, which is supposed to be the site 
of Ashur, the primitive capital of Assyria. 
The North side of the Assyrian Transept opens into the 
EGYPTIAN GALLERIES. 
The monuments in this collection constitute on the whole 
the most widely extended series in the range of Antiquity, 
ascending to at least 2000 years before the Christian sera, and 
closing with the Mohammadan invasion of Egypt, A.D. 640. 
The larger sculptures are placed in two great Galleries with 
a connecting or Central Saloon, and in a Vestibule at the 
Northern extremity. They have been arranged, as far as 
possible, in chronological order, according to the succession of 
dynasties recorded in Manetho. 
The smaller sculptures, consisting chiefly of sepulchral 
