EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 
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N. EGYPT. GALL.] 
fined to the northern portion. They will then be arranged in a series 
parallel with the Assyrian Sculptures, whilst a third parallel will be 
formed by the galleries appropriated to the Greek collection. 
EGYPTIAN CENTRAL SALOON. 
The eastern side of this Saloon is for the present occupied by the 
following sculptures: — 
In three recesses are placed portions of slabs and casts from Perse- 
polis, sculptured or inscribed. Presented by the Earl of Aberdeen , 
the Right Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, and the Right Hon. Sir 
Gore Ouseley. 
Besides these, there are other objects in the Second and Third Re¬ 
cesses ; the First Recess being the most northern. 
In the Second Recess against the piiaster is a cast from one of the 
bas-reliefs engraved on the rocks of the Nahr-el-Kelb, the ancient 
Lycus. It represents, in a standing posture, the Assyrian King who 
built the palace at Kouyunjik, and is believed to be Sennacherib. A 
long inscription in the Assyrian cuneiform is over the figure. Presented 
by the Duke of Northumberland. 
There are also here some tablets from Carthage of a very late pe¬ 
riod, executed in a flat style of bas-relief, representing the sacrifice of a 
bull to Saturn and the Dioscuri: on one the Sun is seen in the con¬ 
stellation Scorpio, while two other constellations are represented be¬ 
neath. 
The Third Recess contains some Arabic inscriptions, some of which 
are from Affghanistan, and were presented by Colonel Franklin. 
SOUTHERN EGYPTIAN GALLERY. 
The few miscellaneous objects temporarily deposited here being in 
process of removal, no description of them can at present be given. 
NORTHERN EGYPTIAN GALLERY*. 
No. 1. A lion couchant, wdiose mane in front is inscribed with the 
prenomen and name of Amen-asro, supposed to be an ^Ethiopian 
monarch. The base is also inscribed with a dedication from a king 
named Raneb-ma to his grandfather Amenophis III. (Memnon), in 
whose reign it must have been sculptured. This lion, with its com¬ 
panion, No. 34, stood before one of the gates of a temple at Mount 
Barkal. Red granite. Presented by Lord Prudhoe , 1835. 
No. 2. A sarcophagus of Petenesi, a bard, in form of a mummy 
case, with five lines of hieroglyphics down the front, the 77th chap¬ 
ter of the sepulchral ritual; the face has been gilt ; probably about the 
period of the 26th dynasty. Arragonite. Thebes. From Mr. Sams's 
collection. 
* 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 Alexan¬ 
dria, in the month of September, 1801. They were brought to England in February, 
1802, under the care of General Sir Hilgrove Turner, and were sent, by order of 
K is Majesty King George the Third, to the British Museum. 
