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DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES. 
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Of a later period are several miscellaneous sculptures in 
this room, of which the following are the most important* : — 
On the East side, a mutilated figure of a Triton, in alto-relievo, from 
Delos : a draped female statue, life-size, without head or extremities, 
from Crete : a small statue of Hercules and a child, probably Teleplms, 
from Laconia : and a torso of a male figure, life-size, from Crete. 
On the North-west side of the room, an oblong sculptured monument 
of uncertain use, with a bas-relief representing apparently an offering 
to Juno, from Cape Sigeum, near Troy. 
In the middle of the room, several altars, and architectural frag- 
ments, from various localities. 
The East side of this room opens into the 
ASSYRIAN GALLERIES. 
A suite of three long and narrow apartments, running 
North and South to a length exceediug 300 feet, with an ad- 
ditional room or transept, crossing from their Southern extre- 
mity, contains the collection of sculptm^es excavated, cliiefly 
by Mr. Layard, in the years 1847—1850, on the site, or 
in the vicinity, of ancient Nineveh. To these has recently 
been added a further collection from the same region, excavated 
in 1853-55, by Mr. Hormuzd Rassam and Mr. W. K. Loftus, 
under the direction of Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.B., at that 
time Her Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. This latter 
collection is as yet only temporarily arranged, partly in a small 
room adjoining one of the long galleries, and partly in an 
apartment on the basement floor, whence it will hereafter be 
transferred to a spacious room now in course of construction. 
These discoveries were for the most part made in extensive 
mounds, formed by the natural accumulation of the soil over 
the debris of ruined edifices, in the three following localities : — 
1 . Ninvroud, beheved to be the ancient Calah of Scripture, on 
the banks of the Tigris, about twenty miles below the modern 
Mosul. 2. Khorsahad, a site about ten miles to the North- 
east of Mosul, which was excavated for the French Govern- 
ment by M. Botta, and from which was procured the greater 
part of the valuable collection now in the Louvre, though a 
few specimens of sculpture have also been obtained for the 
* The position of these sculptures cannot be exactly indicated, as they are not 
yet finally arranged. 
