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The general improvements effected in the MUSEUM 

 OF ANTIQUITIES are indicated in the following 

 remarks, fuller particulars respecting some of the 

 individual objects being found in the lists of donations 

 and purchases. 



Room No. I. 



PRE-HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY. 



Many flint and stone implements have been added 

 both by presentation and purchase. 



EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



The important collection of these antiquities, has 

 been strengthened by additional objects that have been 

 presented during the year, by the Egypt Exploration 

 Fund Committee. 



ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 



Three large sculptured slabs which for many years 

 were deposited at the Academy of Arts have been 

 purchased by the Committee, and are now fixed, framed 

 and glazed, on the East wall of the Antiquities Room. 

 They are placed as they are supposed to have stood in 

 the palace of Ashur-nasir-pal, King of Assyria, B.C. 

 885-860, at Nimroud, the ancient city of Calah, about 20 

 miles south of Nineveh. [See Genesis x. 11, 12.) These 

 slabs were discovered by the late Sir Henry Rawlinson 

 in 1845, when Consul- General at Bagdad. The slabs 

 are inscribed with cuneiform characters, the translation 

 of which has been furnished by Mr. Ernest Sibree, M.A., 

 and is exhibited with the slabs. 



