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In the centre recess, 
Casts from Persepolitan sculptures. Presented by the 
Rt. 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. 
ANTEROOM. 
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 wdiose 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 headsgrace- 
fully intertwined. It was brought to England in 1825, 
and was presented by Lord Western , 1839. 
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Nos. 1—23. Bas-reliefs, representing the battle of the 
