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Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The Knyunjik Collections have been examined and the numbers 

 verified ; the Babylonian Collections have been checked and arranged 

 on trays with reference boards ; and numbers have been affixed to 

 1,200 trays. The exhibited tablets in the Nineveh Gallery have 

 been removed to the Basement. 



100 tablets have been cleaned and 92 repaired ; 4,069 tablets 

 have been placed in numbered boxes ; 3,150 tablets have been, 

 numbered, &c. 



13 stone plinths, 2 oak plinths, 6 stands, and 3 frames have 

 been made, and 24 cylinders, vases, &c., have been mounted. 



2,184 tablets, &c., have been registered ; 43 tablets or fragments 

 have been copied : 2,349 tablets have been catalogued, and 

 283 slips have been revised ; a Preface for the Bronze Gates of 

 Shalmaneser has been written, the making of reference slips for 

 cataloguing purposes has been continued, and the case-books have 

 been kept up to date ; and 100 lithographic plates have been 

 checked in proof. 



Phoenician and Hittite Antiquities : 



122 votive inscriptions have been remounted on stone plinths 

 and labelled ; 36 Hittite antiquities have been mounted on satin-wood 

 pedestals and cloth-covered mounts. 



Works in Progress. 

 1. Cuneiform Texts. — 50 plates of epigraph texts, and 50 plates 

 of Hittite texts have been printed off. 



Publications. 



1. Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. 



2. Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser. 



Students. — About 1,700 visits have been made to the Department 

 by students and inquirers, and 4,840 objects have been issued for 

 their use. 



Personally Conducted Parties. — Eighteen parties with a total of 

 nearly 500 persons have been personally conducted through the 

 Department. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 I. — Egyptian : — 



I. — 1-65. Miscellaneous Egyptian antiquities, including bronze 

 figures, XXth — XXVIth Dynasties, a blue porcelain Canopic jar of 

 Amen-hetep II., bronze boat and figure of Osiris-Ptah, a fine group 

 of ushabtiu figures (some royal), a blue porcelain scarab and two 

 Gnostic gems. 



II. — 1—22. A valuable collection of Coptic antiquities com- 

 prising : Two bas-reliefs, two large painted vases, a lamp, two 



