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GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES. 
[ROOM IV. 
Bust of Demosthenes. Fur chased in 1818. 
Bust of x\ratus, the Poet and Astronomer. Found among the 
ruins of the villa of Marcus Varro. 
No. 26 Bust of Sophocles, the Tragedian. Found , about 1175, 
near Gensano , 17 miles from Rome. Pt 2. Pl.xxvi. 
No. 25. Terminal bust of Homer, in advanced age, wearing a 
fillet, or diadem. Found, in 1780, among some ruins at Baice . 
Pt. 2. PI. xxv. 
No. 44. Terminal bust, probably of a Greek Poet, with a diadem 
similar to the preceding. Found, in 1770, with the bust of Hippo - 
crates . No . 20. Pt. 2. PL xliv. 
Over the bust of Diogenes, a large medallion, with the bust, in 
relief, of an unknown male personage. Pt. 10. PI. lvii. fig. 2. 
Over the bust of Sophocles, a similar medallion, representing appa¬ 
rently the same person. Pt. 10. PI. lvii. fig. 1. 
ROOM IV. 
This Room, which is intended to be called the Third Greco-Roman 
Saloon, will contain the representations of mythical personages, of 
inferior rank to the Olympic Deities. The arrangement being as yet 
incomplete, the objects cannot in this edition be described. 
ASSYRIAN TRANSEPT. 
On the right, or east side of this room, is the Khorsabad compart¬ 
ment, containing monuments from the Palace of Sargon, or Sar- 
gina, the Assyrian king who carried the ten tribes into captivity, 
s.c. 721. 
Two colossal human-headed and winged bulls, each sculptured in 
mezzo-rilie vo both in front and on one side, are placed, agreeably to 
their original arrangement, as on the two sides of the entrance of an 
inner chamber. Under the body of each bull is an Assyrian inscrip¬ 
tion, but that on the left-hand figure has been purposely effaced in 
ancient times. 
Beside each bull is a colossal human figure, in mezzo-rilievo, 
wingrd, and double-horned, having in one hand the fir-cone, and in the 
other the basket, employed in sacrificial rites. These, with the two 
bulls, were obtained from Kho sabad in 1849 by Lieutenant-Colonel 
H. C. Rawlinson, C.B., H.M. Consul-General at Baghdad. 
Within the chamber thus formed is the collection of bas-reliefs 
procured from Khorsabad in 1847 by Mr. Hector, a merchant at Mosul. 
On the East Wall, facing the entrance, are two colossal figures, of a 
king, and a chief, in conference; behind the latter, an eunuch with his 
hands clasped; and on either side, several other heads, originally be¬ 
longing to similar figures. 
At the back of the bull, near the window, are two smaller figures,, 
in a sacrificial attitude, with the right hand raised, and in the left, a 
pomegranate branch; two colossal heads of eunuchs; and a small 
bearded human head. 
At the back of the other bull are two figures, of an archer, and a 
tributary bearing a wine-skin, three small fragments with horses’ heads 
