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On the wall are— 
No. 89. Fragment of a man, wearing a cidaris, leading a horse. 
From Persepolis. Presented by the Earl of Aberdeen. 
Four figures of Persians. Presented by Sir Gore Ouseley . 
No. 84. Fragment. Spear-bearer. Presented by Sir Gore Ouseley. 
No. 86. Fragment of a man, wearing a cidaris, holding a whip, 
and of a man conducting a horse. 
No. 90. Fragments of a man in a chariot. Presented by Sir 
Gore Ouseley . 
On the ground are— 
Fragment of a tablet, having the rude representation of a man and a 
horse. From Ghadamas, N. Africa. Presented by J. Richardson,Esq. 
Baked brick, with an inscription on the edge in an Assyrian cunei¬ 
form character. 
Three inscriptions in the Assyrian cuneiform character. 
Tablet, on which an Assyrian king or deity is marking the notches 
of a palm tree, on the edge of an Assyrian inscription. From Mr. 
Rich's Collection. 
In the second recess, 
Cast of the bas-relief, supposed to represent an Assyrian monarch 
carved on the rocks of the Nahr-el-Kelb, or Lycus, near the site of the 
ancient Berytus or modern Beyrout, made by Mr. Bonomi. Presented 
by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, when Lord Prudhoe. 
A mithraic group; a youth wearing the cidaris, draped in a tunic, 
and anaxyrides stabbing the mithraic bull, wdiich is surrounded by the 
dog, serpent, and scorpion; the w r hole generally supposed to be of astro¬ 
nomical import. 
Upper shelf. An Arabic inscription. 
On the second shelf. Cast from Persepolis, representing a Persian 
soldier wearing on his head the full tiara. 
Six plaster casts, taken from two inscriptions on the rocks at Hadji 
Abad, near Persepolis; one inscription in the Pehlevi, and the other 
in the Parthian character; both relate to the monarch Sapor I. Pre¬ 
sented by the Rt. Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
On the w r all below are, 
Casts of a narrow frieze representing bulls; of figures of men or 
deities holding their army; and of men bringing a torquis and chariot 
from Persepolis. Presented by the Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphin- 
stone. 
In the third recess, 
On the first and second shelf. On the wall, casts of ten slabs from 
the palace at Persepolis, representing male figures wearing the cidaris, 
bearing various offerings, among which are—cups, a skin of wine, a 
goat, and a warrior armed with a spear and wicker shield. 
Casts of the dedication placed on the doors of the palaces of Darius 
at Persepolis in the Achemenian Assyrian, and Persian cuneiform cha¬ 
racters. All presented by the Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
Arabic inscriptions. The three marked F presented by Col. Frank¬ 
lin. Of these, the small one was placed over the door of Firuz Shah’s 
Minaret at Gour; the large one upon the same shelf w T as in front of 
the Golden Mosque at Purrooah; and the one upon the ground was 
upon the mosque of Mohajen Tola, at Gour. 
