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16th centuries 5TH CENTURY ancient Antiquities from France Arms and Armour ASSYRIAN ROOM.-Series BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN British Museum Bronze Cast of inscription Children of Israel CNIDOS CODEX ALEXANDRINUS collection of Egyp CRYSTAL OF LOTHAIR dead engraved scarabs DEMETER Department of Prints doorway at end Edward the Seventh's Egyptian Elgin Ephesus Etruscan FOURTH ROOM GALLERY.-Collections Gate-sockets Glass Greeks and Romans Hammurabi HEAD OF APHRODITÈ Hence they preserved inscription containing Laws Israel in Egypt Jewellery Julius Cæsar King Edward KING OF ASSYRIA King's Library material of Egypt Mausolus Mummies and Mummy NIMROUD Nineveh Notice especially pass through doorway PEDIMENT OF PARTHENON PORTLAND VASE prehistoric Prints and Drawings Room contains ROOM OF GREEK ROOM.-Greek ROOM.-Later Mummies ROOM.-Mummies and Mummy-cases ROOM.-Mummified Animals cats ROOM.-Remains ROOM.-Series of Bricks ROOMS.-General collection ROSETTA STONE Sennacherib Seventh's Galleries Shalmaneser showing Babylonian SUMMARY GUIDE Temple Terra-cotta Tomb Ushabti Figures described writing from earliest Writing Implements
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