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Cases 22, 23. Shelves 1, 2. Sepulchral cones of brick, stamped 
with inscriptions, in bas-relief. They contain the names and titles of 
the functionaries in whose times they were deposited. These have 
been supposed to be stamps or seals—but appear to be rather votive 
objects deposited with the dead. 
Shelf 3. Inscriptions in enchorial and the Greek language, on frag¬ 
ments of pottery, chiefly receipts, under the early emperors. From 
Elephantina, 
Fragments of pottery, with inscriptions in hieratic and Coptic. 
Shelf 4. Inscriptions in Greek and Coptic on fragments of calcareous 
stone and pottery. They are principally religious, and of the Christian 
period. 
Case 27. Large Egyptian vases, in terracotta ; one remarkable 
for being covered with a demotic inscription. 
The objects in Table Cases on tliis side of the room will shortly be 
removed; it has not therefore been considered necessary to describe 
them. 
Within this Room are, for the present, arranged, in the W^all Cases 
Nos. 33-64, and Table Cases Nos. 89-112, a large collection of 
smaller objects in metal, glass, ivory, and terracotta, together with 
gems and seals engraved on different kinds of agate, which have been, 
for the most part, procured from Assyria and Babylonia during the 
recent excavations of Mr. Layard, Colonel Rawlinson, C.B., and 
Mr. Loftus. As it is not intended that these objects should remain 
permanently in this room, it has been deemed sufficient to place them 
together in groups according to the nature of their subjects. 
In Cases 33-37 are placed a set of 15 bronze w’eights in the form of 
lions, found in a chamber of the North-West Edifice at Nimroud; and 
a number of bowls and earthenware vessels, chiefly from tombs over 
the centre of that mound, and from the south-west edifice. The 
lions bear the names of Shalmanubar, Tiglath-Pileser, and Senna¬ 
cherib, kings of Assyria, and have in many instances the value of their 
w'eights inscribed upon them in cuneiform and Phoenician letters. 
Case 38 contains one large bronze salver, and a number of small 
bronze objects, probably portions of horse furniture, which W'ere dis¬ 
covered in a chamber at the north-west corner of the north-west edi¬ 
fice, Nimroud. 
Nos. 39-45 contain a miscellaneous collection of objects, the re¬ 
sult of the excavations at Nimroud. Among them are, in 39-41, the 
ivory objects found during Mr. Layard’s first visit to Assyria. In 
42-43, some curious objects in iron, as a double-handed saw and 
pick, resembling those on the sculptures from Sennacherib’s palace at 
Kouyunjik ; t\vo skulls, found in an inner chamber at Nimroud, from 
which there was no outlet ; and the bronze socket and hinges of a 
gateway at Nimroud. In 44-45 is a collection of bronze bells, feet 
of tripods, footstools, &c., found with the other bronze fragments 
noticed in 38. 
In 47-51 are two large coffins in earthenware, covered with a light 
greenish blue glaze, found by Mr. Loftus on his first visit to Warka 
(Erech), in Southern Babylonia ; beneath these, on the ground-floor, 
the remains of four shields, and a portion of the tire of a wheel, pro- 
•cured by Mr. Layard from the bronze-chamber at Nimroud. The 
