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List of objects in the British Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities.

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Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities Rooms 11, 12a-12b, 13-23, 69-73, 77-78, 82-85

The Parthenon Gallery (Elgin Marbles)

The Parthenon Marbles are one of the finest manifestations of human creation. The Magnificent Relief Frieze showing the Panathenaic procession, from Ancient Greece, often praised as the finest achievement of Greek Architecture, its decorative sculptures are considered one of the high points of Greek art.

The British Museum, Room 21 - Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

Erechtheion

Athena Nike

Twenty three surviving blocks of the frieze from the interior of the temple are exhibited on an upper level.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Two colossal free-standing figures identified as Maussollos and his wife Artemisia.
Part of an impressive horse from the chariot group adorning the summit of the Mausoleum
The Amazonomachy frieze - A long section of relief frieze showing the battle between Greeks and Amazons

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Nereid Monument

Partial reconstruction of the Monument, a large and elaborate Lykian tomb from the site of Xanthos in south-west Turkey
Payava Tomb from Xanthos in south west Turkey

Department of the Middle East Rooms 6-9, 10a, 10b, 10c, 34, 52-59, 88-89

Nimrud: Alabaster bas-reliefs from:

Sculptures:

Pair of Human Headed 'Lamassu' Lions (883-859 BC)
Human Headed 'Lamassu' Bull (883-859 BC), sister piece in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Human Headed 'Lamassu' Lion (883-859 BC), sister piece in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Colossal Statue of a Lion (883-859 BC)
Rare Head of Human Headed 'Lamassu', recovered from the South-West Palace of Esarhaddon
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC)

Alabaster bas-reliefs from:

A large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance approximately 22,000 inscribed clay tablets
The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh

Department of Prints and Drawings

Department of Asia Rooms 33, 33a, 33b, 67, 92-5

Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Rooms 25-27,

Department of Coins and Medals

Department of Prehistory and Europe Rooms 40-41, 45-51

Room 51: Europe and Middle East 10,000-800 BC

^ Tony Kitto, "The celebrated connoisseur: Charles Townley, 1737-1805" Minerva Magazine May/June 2005, in connection with a British Museum exhibition clebrating the bicentennial of the Townley purchase. [2]