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the propriety of this restoration is much doubted: round the head 
are holes by which a metallic wreath of ivy, or vine leaves, has been 
attached to it. 
Persepolitan sculptures and inscriptions; those numbered 48, 85, 86, 
87, 88, presented by the JRt. Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley ; 89, 90, 91, 92, 
93, by ike Earl of Aberdeen , in 1818. 
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. 
In the centre recess, 
A mithraic group; a youth wearing the cidaris, draped in a tunic, 
and anaxyrides stabbing the mithraic bull, which is surrounded by the 
dog, serpent, and scorpion; the whole generally supposed to be of astro¬ 
nomical import. 
Casts from Persepolitan sculptures, and six plaster casts, taken from 
two inscriptions on the rocks at Hadji Abad, near Persepolis; one in¬ 
scription in the Pehlevi, and the other in the Parthian character; both 
relate to the monarch Sapor I. Presentedby the Rt. Hon. Mountstuart 
Elphinstone. 
In the third recess, 
Casts of Persepolitan sculptures. 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 was in front of 
the Golden Mosque at Purrooah; and the one upon the ground was 
upon the mosque of Mohajen Tola, at Gour. 
Statue of a sleeping youth, wearing a petasus, and draped in a chlamvs, 
shod with endromides; supposed to be Mercury, but more probably 
Endymion. 
Tw o lions’ heads, in very salient relief, which have formed part of an 
ancient sarcophagus. 
No. 1. A colossal head of Minerva. Pt. ]. PI. i. 
No. 1*. A bust of Trojan, with the breast naked. Found in an 
excavation made in the Campagna di Roma, a.d. 1776. 
No. 2. A funeral urn, ornamented with equestrian and pedestrian 
combatants: formerly in the collection of Victor Amadei, at Rome ; 
whence it was purchased in 1768. Pt. 1. PI. n. 
No. 2*. A statue of Apollo, of very early Greek work. Pur¬ 
chased in 1818, at the sale of the Comte de Choiseul- Gouffier's Anti¬ 
quities. 
No. 3. One of the feet or supports of an ancient, tripod table, 
found in 1769, in the Pantanella, within the grounds of Hadrian’s villa, 
near Tivoli. Pt. 1. PL hi. 
No. 3*. Head of Apollo, of very early Greek work. Brought from 
Rome by the late Lord Cawdor. 
No. 4. A statue of a canephora, anciently made use of as a column. 
It w 7 as one of the Caryatides w 7 hich supported the portico of a small 
temple dedicated to Bacchus. It w T as found during the pontificate 
of Sixtus V., among some ancient ruins in the Villa Strozzi, situated 
upon the Appian Road. Pt. 1. PI. iv. 
