THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 
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HISTORY OF SCULPTURE. 
The Museum possesses a series of plaster casts of the most 
famous sculptures of the Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, and 
Romans, designed to illustrate the history of glyptic art. It 
consists of the tablet of the Sun God of Sippara, several slabs 
with reliefs, the Wounded Lioness, Assyrian; the column of 
Hammurabi and the circular monument of Tello, Babylonian; 
the lid of the sarcophagus of Sebaksi, the recumbent lion, the 
lid of the sarcophagus of Ankhur-ferabra, Hapi, God of the 
Nile, Horus with Altar, Egyptian; the Harpy Tomb, the head 
of the Discobolus, the Laocoon group, the Two Fates, the Her- 
mes of Andros, Orpheus, the Eleusinian relief, Ceres, eleven 
casts from Aretine moulds in the possession of the Boston 
Museum of Fine Arts, Greek; four casts from the Arch of Trajan, 
Roman; and a cast of the statue of Moses by Michelangelo, 
Italian. 
