195 
Against the opposite pilasters are placed 
A mutilated statue 6f a draped female. 
A mutilated draped statue of a youth. 
In the first recess 
Casts of sculptures and inscriptions from Perse- 
polis, &c. Presented by the Rt. Hon . Mountstuart 
Elphinstone. 
Persepolitan sculptures and inscriptions; those num¬ 
bered 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, presented by the Rt. Hon. 
Sir Gore Ouseley; 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, by the Earl of 
Aberdeen , in 1818. 
In the centre recess 
Casts from Persepolitan sculptures. Presented by 
the Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
In the third recess 
Casts of Persepolitan sculptures. Presented by the 
Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
Arabic inscriptions. The three marked F presented by 
Col. Franklin. Of these, the small one was placed over 
the door of Firuz Shah’s Minaret at Gour; the large 
one upon the same shelf was in front of the Golden 
Mosque at Purrooah; and the one upon the ground 
was upon the mosque of Mohajen Tola, at Gour. 
EGYPTIAN SALOON. 
The articles contained in this Room, to which this mark 
(f) is prefixed in this catalogue , were collected by 
the French in different parts of Egypt, and came into 
the possession of the English army in consequence of 
the capitulation of Alexandria, in the month of Sep¬ 
tember, 1801. They were brought to England in Fe¬ 
bruary, 1802, under the care of General Turner, and 
were sent , by order of His Majesty, King George 
the Third, to the British Museum . 
No. 1. A lion couchant of red granite; the mane 
inscribed in front with a name not yet decyphered; the 
base is also inscribed with hieroglyphics, in which ap¬ 
pears the name of Amenoph 3. (Mernnon). 
o 2 No. 2. 
GRAND 
CENTRAL 
SALOON. 
Antiquities. 
EGYPTIAN 
SALOON. 
