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EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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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. Rawlinson, 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 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 is in the centre, and 
on the North side are some busts and statues from Dali or Idalium. 
The North side of the Assyrian 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 years before the Christian sera, and 
closing with the Moharamadan 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 name& 
and titles of the deceased, who 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 
