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DEPAETMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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each side of the preceding, the Capital of a Pilaster ; and below these, 
two small shafts of Columns, in granite. On the floor, part of a mosaic 
Pavement, representing the head of Neptune. 
Near these are placed two architectural Models : — in the centre of 
the room, a Model of the Coliseum at Kome; and in the sixth recess, 
a Model of the temple of Vesta, at Tivoli. 
In the sixth window, is a Pig of lead, with a Pioman inscription. 
Retvirning to the head of the staircase, the door on the left 
leads to the 
LYCIAN GALLERY.* 
The collection in this room consists of architectural and 
sculptural remains obtained from ancient cities in Lycia, one 
of the South-west provinces of Asia Minor, inhabited by a 
mixed population of two aboriginal races called Solymi and 
Termilse, with the Greeks, who had colonized it at an early 
period, before the Trojan war. These monuments were re- 
moved from that country in two expeditions undertaken by 
Her Majesty's Government in the years 1842— 184j6, under 
the direction of Sir C. Fellows, by whom the greater part of 
them were discovered. They consist of sculptured remains, 
ranging in date from the subjugation of the country by the 
Persians, B.C. 545, to the period of the Byzantine Empire. 
With them are exhibited plaster casts of some other sculp- 
tures, of which the removal was not found practicable, but of 
which facsimiles were thought needful as illustrations of the 
history of art, and materials for the study of a language 
apparently peculiar to Lycia. These objects are all from 
the city of Xanthus, except when otherwise specified. The 
following are the most remarkable : — 
No. ]. Bas-reliefs from the Harpy tomh, which stood on the Acro- 
polis. The sculptures, as will be seen by the model adjoining, 
originally decorated the four sides of a rectangular solid shaft, about 
seventeen feet high, which was surmounted by a small chamber, of 
which the door is visible on the West side of the monument. The 
style indicates a date probably not later than B.C. 500. The sub- 
jects of the bas-reliefs are variously interpreted ; on the North 
and South sides are Harpies bearing off the daughters of Pandarus ; 
• Owin^ to alterations occaKioned by the erection of two adjoining galleries, 
this collection has been in part disturbed from its original arrangement, and the 
want of space renders it impossible at present to reduce it to any exact order. 
