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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 
richly accoutred, and a third fragment, inscribed, and having on it the 
feet of two men and a horse. 
On the Wall facing the window is a slab with two horses’ heads, richly 
caparisoned, and the upper part of the figure of a foreign tributary, the 
size of life. 
Beneath this is the only slab obtained by Mr. Layard from Khorsa- 
bad, in black stone, and representing, in bas-relief, three Assyrian sports¬ 
men in a wood, with bows and arrows, killing deer, hares, and birds. 
In a detached position, in the middle, is a mutilated statue, in 
basalt, of a male figure of the size of life, seated on a square throne: 
it is covered with inscriptions, which prove it to be of the time of 
Divanubara. Found by Mr. Layard, at Kalah Sherghat, on the Tigris, 
below Nimroud, in 1847. 
The North side of the Assyrian Transept opens into the 
EGYPTIAN GALLERIES. 
The monuments in this collection, the last to be seen on the Ground 
Floor of the Museum, may be regarded on the whole as the earliest 
within the range of antiquity : for though, on the one hand, they 
descend to the times of the Roman Empire, they ascend, on the 
other, to a period probably not less than 2000 years before the Chris¬ 
tian era. The two great Galleries, with the connecting or Central 
Saloon, in which these monuments are contained, form, together, the 
third, or most Eastern, of the parallel suites running North and South, 
respectively appropriated to the Greek, the Assyrian, and the Egyptian 
collections. The larger sculptures have been arranged, as far as pos¬ 
sible, in chronological order, the dynastic divisions of Manetho forming 
the historical basis of the system during the period of the Pharaohs, 
or native kings: but the tablets, and other smaller sculptures, are as 
yet only partially reduced to a corresponding order, as the chrono¬ 
logical classification of these objects presents greater difficulties. 
Entering the Southern Gallery, the visitor first finds the monuments 
of the Roman dominion in Egypt, commencing wfith the capture of 
Alexandria by Augustus, b.c. 30, and extending till the Mohammedan 
invasion, a.d. 640. Next follow the remains of the Greek period, 
introduced by the conquests of Alexander the Great, and the succes¬ 
sion of Ptolemy Soter to the kingdom, b.c. 323. Afterwards commence 
the series of sculptures belonging to the thirty dynasties of Manetho; 
the Southern Gallery comprehending the latest portion, as far back as 
the Nineteenth Dynasty. 
The Central Egyptian Saloon is appropriated to the monuments of 
