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At the other end are slabs with inscriptions from colossal bulls, 
recording the campaign of Sennacherib against Judsea, 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. 
The North side of the Assyrian Transept opens into the 
EGYPTIAN GALLERIES. 
The monuments in this collection constitute on the whole 
the mOsSt 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 
tablets, have been brought, as far as practicable, into the same 
order as the larger monuments. These tablets record the names 
and titles of the deceased, Avho are represented upon them per- 
forming acts of homage to their ancestors or various divinities. 
Though of great value to the student of the language and 
history of Egypt, they do not possess such interest as to detain 
the general visitor. Their probable age, and the names of the 
persons to whom they were erected, will be seen on their labels. 
The Egyptian collection has been foi-med partly from the 
donation, by King George III., of the antiquities obtained 
at the capitulation of Alexandria ; and partly by acquisitions 
from the Earl of Belmore, Mr. Salt (including the discoveries of 
Belzoni), and M. Aiiastasi. It has been further enriched by 
presents from H.M. the Queei), H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 
General Howard Vyse, the Duke of Northumberland, the 
Marquis of Northampton, and others. 
The localities from which the sculptures have been })rin- 
cipally derived are as follows : — The earlier sepulchral iiioiiu- 
