CONTENTS. 
Assyrian Galleries — continued. 
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Assyrian Basement- Room (Sculptures of thetime of Assur-bani-abla — Bas- 
reliefs representing deities, soldiers, musicians, animals, camps, wars 
of Assur-bani-abla — Assault and capture of Lacbish andotber cities — 
Lion-bunts by Assur-bani-abla — Return from tbe cbase — Banqueting 
scene — Pavement-slabs — Articles in bronze, iron, terracotta, &c.) . 104 
Assyrian Transept (Colossal human-headed lions and bulls from Nimroud 
and Khorsabad — Slab with relief of Assur-nazir-abla — Torsos witb in- 
scriptions — Seated figure of Shalmaneser — Bronze gates of Shalmane- 
ser II. — Bas-reliefs — Inscribed slabs recording campaign of Sen- 
nacherib against Judsea — Monuments from palace of Sargina — Casts, 
sculptures, and inscriptions from Persepolis — Antiquities from Cyprus 
— Phoenician sarcophagus) . . . . . . . .105 
Egyptian Galleries. Introduction . . . . . , . .106 
Southern Gallery (Monuments of the Roman dominion in Egypt — Remains 
of the Ptolemaic or Greek period — The Rosetta stone — Monuments 
of the 30th, 26th, 22nd, and 19th dynasties) . . . .108 
Central Saloon (Monuments of the age of Rameses II., " Sesostris," 19th 
Northern Gallery (Sculptures of the 18th dynasty — Statues and heads, 
chiefly colossal, of King Horus, Amenopbis III., andThothmes III. — 
Tablet of Abydos — Lions from Mount Barkal — Statues of the goddess 
Sekhet — Egyptian paintings) 109 
Northern Vestibule (Earliest Egyptian sculptures — Monuments of tbe first 
twelve dynasties) .......... 110 
North-West Staircase (Egyptian Papyri in hieroglyphic, hieratic, and 
demotic or enchorial characters — Extracts from the Ritual of the Dead) 111 
Egyptian Anteroom (Casts from bas-reliefs in Egypt) . . . .111 
First Egyptian Room (The smaller antiquities of Egypt) . . . 112 
I. {Religious Section — Representations of divinities and sacred 
dynasty) 
109 
animals) 
112 
II. (Civil Section — Remains of Egyptian dress, ornaments, articles 
of domestic use) . . . . . . 
113 
III. (Sepulchral Section — Objects relating to death and burial — 
Mummies, coffins, &c.) . . . 
114 
Second Egyptian Room (Further illustrations of sepulchral remains) . 116 
