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43-62. A miscellaneous collection of 22 portions of tablets and 

 cases of tablets, many bearing very perfect impressions 

 of cylinder seals. About B.C. 2000. 



63. White limestone object with annules and herring-bone 



pattern ; perhaps a model of a turtle. 



64. Silver bangle ; late period. 



65-274. A collection of 210 "account tablets" from Jokha, the 

 site of the ancient city of Umma. They are written 

 in Sumerian and are dated not by regnal years of 

 kings, but by events, and belong to the period about 

 B.C. 2300. They were used by the Viceroy to record 

 his various business transactions, the principal medium- 

 of which seems to have been copper. 

 275-686. A large and important collection, consisting of 412 in- 

 scribed tablets of the class which is now known as 

 " Cappadocian," from Boghaz Keui. About 300 of 

 them are letters concerning sums of money of lead and 

 silver. The remainder are bonds for money, notes of 

 loans, and documents of this kind ; all these are dated 

 by eponyms (limu). The material used is quite differ- 

 ent from the ordinary clay of Babylonia, and is red, 

 or white, or black in colour. The writing resembles 

 that in use about B.C. 2000, and is peculiar to " Cappa- 

 docian " tablets ; the ordinary shape is that of a 

 " pillow " with a curved edge. The names of Ashur, 

 Ishtar, Adad, Sin and Shamash appear in many of the 

 names of the contracting parties. 



Presents. 



I. — 1. Ushabti figure of Maat-Ka-Ra, i.e. Queen Hatshepset. 

 B.C. 1550. 



2. Green glazed faience ushabti figure. XXYIth dynasty. 



3. Bronze Apis Bull. XXth dynasty. 

 4, 5. Two figures of animals in bronze. 



6, 7. Two figures of the god Bes. 



8. A glazed faience ring. 



9. Figure of Ptah-Seker-Asar. 



10-40. A collection of thirty-one scarabs, beads, plaques, &c., 

 in steatite. 

 Presented hy the Dowager Viscountess Wolseley. 

 II. — Portion of the cover of a large outer Egyptian coffin. 

 XXVIth dynasty. 



Presented hy Captaiyi Arnold Palmer, R.A. 

 III. — Cast of the death-mask of Amen-hetep IV., King of 

 Egjpt about B.C. 1450. 

 Presented hy the Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon. 

 IV. — Blue faience figure of Qebhsenuf, son of Horus, and a 

 protector of the dead. 

 Presented hy Capt. A. French Brewster, 



