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•Vfith the seal en placard. In the department of Antiquities 

 the acquisitions include a mutilated statue of An, an early 

 Eo-vptian king, erected by Sesortesen I., of the twelfth 

 dynasty, find discovered at Tivoli ; the upper part of a 

 statue of a monarch of the twenty-eighth dynasty, of 

 oriental alabaster, presented by the Queen ; a complete 

 mummy cloth ; a collection of engraved cylinders, bearing 

 Assyrian and Phoenician characters ; an extensive collec- 

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 sun-dials), a fine collection of objects from New Zealand, 

 an earthen vessel found in a mound on the Mississippi, 

 and moulded bricks from a temple at Agra. The total 

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1773 180 gold, 991 silver, and 607 copper. In the 



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