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ANTE-ROOM. 
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. 
ANTE-ROOM. 
At one end of this room are arranged, for the present, a 
number of Egyptian papyri; and a terracotta sarcophagus 
discovered in a tomb at Tuscania, the front of which is 
decorated with two dolphins; on the cover is the recumbent 
figure of a young woman, with one leg bent under the 
other; her head, which is decorated with a wreath of flowers, 
rests upon her right arm. 
At the other end of this room are four sarcophagi dis¬ 
covered in a tomb near the road leading from Tuscania to 
Tarquinia; the fronts are decorated with sculpture and 
inscriptions, and on the cover of each is a recumbent statue 
of the person whose remains were deposited within. Near 
them lies, for the present, a terracotta sarcophagus ; the 
front is marked with two branches, probably of palm; and 
on the cover is the recumbent figure of a female with one 
leg bent under the other, as in that already described 
of the same material, and found near the same place. 
In the centre of this room stands a magnificent marble 
Tazza or vase of very large dimensions, the height being 
4 feet 3^ inches, and the diameter of the cup 3 feet 7 
inches. It stands upon a single stem, and has handles 
very curiously formed of swans’ necks and heads grace¬ 
fully intertwined. It was brought to England in 1825. 
Presented by Lord Western , 1839. 
Pedestal on which, as appears from the inscription, 
was a statue of Peraia, daughter of Apollonius, son of 
Hermogenes, erected by her son Socrates. 
On this pedestal is a statue in white marble repre¬ 
senting the youthful Bacchus or a Faun, found at An- 
tium. 
Pedestal of calcareous stone, on which has apparently 
been placed the statue of Apollonius, son of Hermogenes, 
