SALOONS "1 
GREEK and roman SCULPTURES. 
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of the steles or pillar tombs; and at the other, a fragment of a Lycian 
inscription, and a bas-relief of a sphinx. 
At the east side of the room, on another temporary framework, is a 
narrow frieze from the same place, representing combats, persons bear¬ 
ing offerings, a bear and boar hunt, combat of pemons on foot and 
others on horseback. 
Within this are parts of a column and fragments from Lycia; 
casts of two bas-reliefs from Rome; and, five casts of Selinuntine 
marbles, -presented hy Samuel Angell, Esq. 
Over the entrance. 
Plaster cast of the face of the Northern Colossus at the rock temple 
of Ibsamboul. 
Against the square columns on the west side are placed 
A statue of Venus preparing for the bath; of white marble. Pre¬ 
sented hy His Majesty King William IV. 
A statue of the Emperor Hadrian, in a military dress; the breast¬ 
plate is in high preservation, and richly ornamented. Purchased hi 
Against one pilaster on the north side is a bust of Jupiter. Pre¬ 
sented hy J. T. Parher Peaumont, Esq., 1836. 
Against the other, a head of Apollo. Presented hy the Hon. Mrs. 
Hamer. 
Against a pilaster on the east side, a mutilated draped statue of a 
youth. 
Against another, a mutilated statue of a draped female. 
In the first recess. 
A female statue without head and arms, found in the temple of The¬ 
mis at Rhamnus in Attica. Presented, in 1820, hu John P. Gandu 
Peering, Esq. (307*.) • 
Casts of sculptures and inscriptions from Persepolis, &c. Presented 
hy the Rt. Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
Persepolitan sculptures and inscriptions; those numabered 48, 85, 86, 
87, 88, presented hy the Rt. Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley; 89, 90, 91, 92 ’ 
93, hy the Earl of Aberdeen, in 1818. ^ * 
In the centre recess. 
Casts from Persepolitan sculptures. Presented hy the Rt. Hoii. 
Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
In the third recess. 
Casts of Persepolitan sculptures. Presented hy the Right Hon. 
Mountstuart Elphinstone. 
_ Arabic inscriptions. The three marked F presented hy Col. Frank¬ 
lin. Of these, the small one was placed over the door of Firus 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. “ 
No. 1. A colossal head of Minerva. Pt. 1. PI. i. 
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. ii. 
No. 2*. A statue of Apollo, of very early Greek work. Purchased 
in 1818, at the sale of the Comte de Choiseid-Gouffier's Antiquities. 
No. 3. One of the feet or supports of an ancient tripod table 
