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registered ; ten inscriptions liave been copied and several copies 

 revised, and the plates for Part VI. of Egyptian Texts; liave been 

 checked over. 



A set of twenty-two postcards with coloured representations 

 of coffins and mummies has been printed, descriptive labels have 

 been written for them, and short introductions dealing with the 

 Book of the Dead and mummification have been written and 

 printed. 



A. monograph on the Book of the Dead has been written. 



Three hundred and forty-four slips for the Catalogue of 

 Scarabs have been written. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



Tiie general re-arrangement of the Babylonian Eoom and the 

 Phoenician and Semitic Rooms in the Second Northern Gallery 

 has been completed, and the Rooms were re-opened to the public 

 on July I5th. 



The collection of Sumerian and early Babylonian antiquities 

 has been amplified, and all objects bought during the year have 

 been incorporated. 



Thirty-one cases of antiquities have been brought from the 

 Docks to the Museum, and their contents unpacked and examined. 

 The collection of Hittite sculptures has been brought upstairs, 

 and the bas-reliefs and sculptures have been placed in the wall- 

 cases on the North- West Staircase. 



Twenty Babylonian bricks, twelve miscellaneous Babylonian 

 objects (ovoids, plaques, etc.), one seated figure, and one Kufi 

 gravestone, have been mounted on stone plinths; eight table-cases 

 have been covered with cloth. 



Thirty tablets, twenty figures, thirty-one terra-cotta vases, 

 twenty-one bowls and dishes, etc., have been repaired, and five 

 tablets have been cleaned. 



The restoration of the bronze masks from the heads of animals 

 from Babylonia has been continued, and the bitumen cores> of the 

 masks have been treated with preservative solutions. Four boxes 

 of human and animal bones have been treated. 



The remainder of the cases of Babylonian antiquities from the 

 Postal Tube have been unpacked, and their contents, about fifty 

 thousand tablets, have been checked, and their glass-toipped boxes 

 cleaned and repaired. 



Seven thousand seven hundred objects have been numbered ; 

 fifteen hundred and forty-three objects have been registered; twO' 

 hundred and ten texts have been copied; the wall-cases in the 

 Babylonian Pooin have been labelled. 



An introduction has been written for Part XXXY. of " Cunei- 

 form Texts; an Index to Parts XXYI.-XXXV. of "Cuneiform 

 Texts" has been compiled and printed; an Introduction to 

 " Hittite Texts " has been written and printed ; and a list of signs 

 and personal names in the Cappadocian tablets has been pre- 

 pared. 



A monograph on the Deluge Tablet and the Epic of Gil- 

 gamish has been written. 



