190 GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. [ELGIN 
has already knocked down, and is holding by the hair 
of his head. 
The Egyptian paintings, contained in ten glazed Cases, 
and deposited for the present in this room, were taken 
from the wail of a tomb under ground, in the year 1820, 
and sent to England by the late H. Salt, Esq. 
A torso of Venus, of very fine sculpture, purchased in 
182 1 , and an imperfect statue of Hymen, purchased in 
1831, with a few more articles, are not yet numbered, 
the arrangements of the room not being completed. 
ELGIN SALOON*. 
Many of the sculptures in this room having been 
described by various authors, and referred to by the 
numbers with which they were marked in their former 
situation, those numbers have been retained: but to faci¬ 
litate a reference from the Synopsis to the marbles, a 
fresh set of numbers, adapted to their present disposition, 
has been added, which will easily be distinguished from 
the former by being painted in red . The general order 
observed in affixing these numbers to the several objects 
is as follows :— 
1. The metopes of the Parthenon. 
2. The frieze of the Parthenon, commencing on the" 
left hand of the visitor as he enters the room. 
3. Such of the sculptures placed along the middle 
of the room, as belonged to the eastern and west¬ 
ern pediments of the Parthenon. 
4. The remaining articles placed along the middle 
of the room. 
5. The casts and bas-reliefs above the frieze on the 
eastern side of the room (those nearest the en¬ 
trance being taken last in order). 
6. Ail the objects below the frieze, taken in their 
order of position, and commencing, as before, on 
the left of the entrance. 
The original numbers are subjoined to the descriptions. 
Those which have the letter A prefixed refer to such ar¬ 
ticles as were originally placed in the room then denomi¬ 
nated the fourteenth. 
* All the articles in this room, except a few which are particuarly spe¬ 
cified, belonged to the Earl of Elgin. 
