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EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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and on the South wall casts of Pehlevi inscriptions at Hadji Abad 
in its vicinity. 
Near there are cases containing antiquities excavated at Dali or 
Idalium, in Cyprus, by Mr. E. H. Lang, in 1870, including terracotta 
toys, &c. Amongst them is an inscription in the Phoenician and 
Cyprian languages, dated in the reign of Melekiatun, about b.c. 370. 
Here, also, are temporarily exhibited the plates of the bronze gates 
from Balawat, with reliefs representing campaigns of Shalmaneser II. 
Against the columns on the North side the upper half of the statue 
of a deity or monarch, and another statue from the same place. 
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. 721. 
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. Kawlinson, 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. They come 
from Kouyunjik. 
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. 
A marble Phoenician sarcophagus from Sidon is in the centre, and 
on the North side are some busts and statues from Dali or Idalium. 
The North side of the Assjrrian 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 j^ears 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 
