34 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, Sfc. 

 Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The removal of portions o£ the collections to places protected 

 against hostile air-craft has been continued. 



The objects acquired during the year have been cleaned, repaired 

 (when necessary) and mounted in readiness for exhibition in due 

 course. 



The labelling of the collections has been continued. 22 labels 

 have been written and painted, and 25 numbers have been painted 

 on plinths, and broken letters and numbers have been repaired. 



12 objects have been mounted on stone plinths, one stele has 

 been repaired, several stelse have been cleaned, 9 pedestals, 5 labels, 

 and several small mounts have been made. 



A large selection of autotype reproductions of the principal royal 

 mummies from Der al-Bahari has been mounted in four frames for 

 exhibition, and each autotype has been labelled. 



The Coptic stelse from the Egyptian Gallery have been removed 

 to a room in the Second Northern Gallery, and the arrangement of 

 a Coptic Room has been begun. 



The casts of the sarcophagi of Tabnith and Eshmunazar have been 

 repaired and painted, and inscriptions picked out in a lighter colour. 

 The Hebrew gravestones from Aden have been cleaned, remounted, 

 and removed upstairs. 



The miscellaneous collections and fragments in the Basement 

 have been examined, and a number of objects selected for mounting 

 and exhibition. 



The Wall-cases on the North-West Staircase Landing have been 

 re-arranged, and a number of recently acquired objects have been 

 placed in them. 



The busts, figures, terra-cottas, inscriptions, &c., from Cyprus 

 have been transferred to the Greek and Roman Department, and the 

 cases which held them have been re-fitted, and filled with Phoenician 

 Inscriptions, &c. 



The Semitic Inscriptions have been re -arranged in the First and 

 Second Rooms in the Second Northern Gallery. The First Room 

 contains the inscriptions in the Northern Semitic dialects (Phoenician, 

 Hebrew, &c.), and the Second Room contains those in Southern 

 dialects (Himyaritic, Arabic, &c.). The antiquities from Carthage 

 have also been grouped. 



Assyrian Antiquities : 



4,746 tablets have been numbered, 48 trays have been numbered, 

 1,992 tablets have been boxed, slip numbers have been affixed to 296 

 boxes of tablets, 12 labels have been written, 2 tablets have been 

 repaired, the reference numbers to the collections have been continued, 

 and 78 tablets have been catalogued. 



