MUSEUMS. 



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Wooden Coffin or Box tor holding the mutilated members of various 

 human bodies ; two Wooden Mallets ; Wooden Plug or Wedge, v. 86 ; 

 Wooden Headrest, v. 14; piece of Wood, v. 109; Fragments of 

 Mummy Cloth, 99, 104 (?), 148b; two Metal Mirrors, very much 

 corroded, 14, 36 ; Diorite (?) Bowl (broken and repaired) ; String of 

 Beads, amethysts, garnets, and carnelian ; Base of a Seated Figure in 

 calcareous stone; Small Seated Figure, carved in calcareous stone 

 (imperfect). 



Foot Rubber of red clay, in form of a crocodile, Modern (9.3. 97. 7) ; 

 purchased. 



Babylonia : — 

 Fourteen Baked Clay Tablets (27. 7. 97. 1-14), from Bagdad; 

 purchased. 



Nepal : — 



Photographs of a Group of Bhutia Men born in Sikkim, and of 

 Nepalese Men and Women (9. 10. 97. 24-25 and 28) ; Bird-shaped 

 Copper Kettle, used by Silversmiths, and a Silver Coin, Nepalese 

 (9. 10. 97. 18 and 23); Brahman's Sacred Thread (9. 10. 97- 19). 



Italy :— 



Marble Urn (6. 10. 97. 5) ; purchased. 



Head Ornament for Horses, made of Macaw feathers ; Rosettes of 

 Dyed Straw, used for decorating horses' manes, Ischia work ; Silver 

 Crescent-shaped Amulet, and four Coral and Bone Amulets, from 

 Naples (6. 10. 97. 1-4); presented by Mr. L. H. Picton. 



Cyprus : — 

 A collection of Cypriote Antiquities, purchased (9. 3. 97. 1-79), of 

 various ages : — 



I. — POTTEKY. 



A.— Bronze Age, B.C. 2000-1000. 



a. — Red Polished Ware : — 

 Three Vases, with incised patterns ; Vase, a black variety of the 

 red polished ware ; Bottle and Vase of inferior fabric. 

 b.— White Painted Ware, B.C. 2000 :— 

 Three Vases and Four Bottles ; an CEnochce and a Double Bottle ; 

 Vase, (cf Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Phoenicia, vol. 2, 

 page 285) ; Vase, in form of a goose. 



