┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SUMMARY OF THE ACCOMMODATION PROVIDED IN THE PLAN FOR ASSYRIAN │ │ ANTIQUITIES. │ ├──────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┤ │ _Amount of Wall-space now in use │_Amount of Wall-space in the Plan │ │ for Assyrian Bas-reliefs._ │ for Assyrian Bas-reliefs._ │ │ │Linear│ │Linear│ │ │feet. │ │feet. │ │Nimroud Side Gallery │ 278│Room XIII │ 314│ │Nimroud Central Saloon │ 82│Room XIV │ 95│ │Assyrian Transept │ 125│Room XV │ 145│ │Koyunjik Gallery │ 242│Room XVI │ 344│ │Assyrian Basement Room │ 243│Room XVII │ 199│ │ │ ———│ │ —————│ │ │ 970│ │ 1,097│ │Bas-reliefs in the middle │ │ │ │ │ of Basement Room │ 254│ │ │ │ │ —————│ │ │ │ │ 1,224│ │ │ └───────────────────────────┴──────┴───────────────────────────┴──────┘ It thus appears that the wall-space provided in the plan, though one hundred and twenty-seven feet more than the wall-space in the existing rooms, falls short by one hundred and twenty-seven feet of the total linear extent of the bas-reliefs, as now arranged. In lieu, however, of placing slabs in the middle of a gallery, as is done in the basement room, and as it would likewise be possible to do in XVI or XVII, it is thought better, in these last rooms, to provide the additional space by simply carrying up the slabs to a greater height. The space for central cases for small objects, which is at present four thousand and eighty square feet in rooms would be eight thousand one hundred and seventy square feet in Rooms XVI and XVII, an amount so abundant as to supersede the necessity for any wall-cases. The accommodation here provided for Assyrian antiquities is little more in quantity, though much better in quality, than the present. But this is nearly the only branch of the archæological collections to which there seems little probability of future additions. If, contrary to expectation, any such should be made, a supplemental room might be built on the vacant space to the north of the Assyrian galleries. [Sidenote: PERSIAN ROOM.]