GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
The extensive acquisitions that have recently been made in the 
Department of Antiquities, and the alterations and enlargements of 
the building, required to provide for the Assyrian and other collec¬ 
tions, have made it impossible as yet to arrange the galleries in any but 
a temporary manner. Until the new rooms designed for the later 
Greek and Roman Sculptures are completed, objects which it is in¬ 
tended ultimately to collect, and exhibit in chronological sequence, are 
necessarily scattered. The frequent removal of the marbles from 
room to room, which is necessary to facilitate the progress of the works 
without impeding the access of visitors and students, would render any 
detailed description of a large portion of the collection inapplicable 
to their position after the lapse of a few weeks or months. Those ob¬ 
jects, therefore, which are now being, or intended forthwith to be, 
transferred to new situations, are mentioned only generally in the fol¬ 
lowing account. 
ROOM I. 
This room, in which it is proposed eventually to place the British 
and Anglo-Roman Antiquities, is at present occupied chiefly by a por¬ 
tion of the collection of the late Charles Towneley, Esq.* 
Immediately to the left of the door on entering is the front of a tomb, 
inscribed with the name of Tryphon, son of Eutychus, who is repre¬ 
sented in high relief, holding a strigil in his right hand. From Athens. 
Immediately to the right of the door is the front of a tomb, on which 
are sculptured in relief two youthful male figures, apparently an athlete 
and slave. From Delos . Presented by A. F. Impey, Esq., 1825. 
In front of the above, an architectural lion’s head, and a colossal foot. 
The wall facing the windows is divided into six compartments. 
FIRST COMPARTMENT. 
Bust of Demosthenes; below, the front of a pilaster, ornamented 
with a composition of olive and pine branches and birds in low relief. 
Sepulchral stele, inscribed with the name of Leneeus, son of Arte- 
midorus, who is represented reclining on a couch, and crowning him¬ 
self. Above, is the demic crown, and beneath, two Greek elegiac verses. 
Cippus, or sepulchral altar, ornamented with rams’ heads and sphinxes, 
erected by L. Virius Helius, to Viria Primitiva, his wife, deceased in her 
nineteenth year. Pt. 10. PI. lvi. 
A Case containing the following articles: — 
Fragment of a head of Hercules covered with the lion’s skin. Pre- 
sented by T. Hollis, Esq., 1757. 
A funeral mask such as was used to cover the face of a female corpse. 
From the collection of Sir W. Hamilton. 
Head of Hercules. Presented by T. Hollis, Esq., 1757. 
* All the objects mentioned in the description of this and of the succeeding 
Room, of which the former proprietors are not specified, belonged to the Towneley 
collection. More ample descriptions, with Plates, of a considerable portion of 
these sculptures, have been published in Parts. References to the Parts, and to 
the Plates, are here annexed to the notices of the objects themselves. 
