60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



V. Bronze shrew-mouse, from a bronze case made to 

 hold a mummied shrew-mouse ; about B.C. 600. 

 Presented by J. W. K. Guninghame, Esq. 



VI. — A royal seal cylinder of " Gamil-Sin, Kin<;' of 

 Ur, king of the four (quarters of the world " ; 

 about B.C. 2500. The text is published in Raw- 

 linson, Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western 

 Asia, vol. 1, plate iii., No. XI. 



Presented bij the late Sir H. (J. Raiulinson, 

 Bart., G.c.B. 



VII. — 1. Four Babylonian contract tablets ; about B.C. 

 2500. 

 2. A large fragment of a Babylonian tablet : about 

 B.C. 2.500. 



Presented, by John Craig, Esq. 



VIII. A circular, hollow, large stone vessel, inscribed 

 with the name of Ispuinis, the son of Sardur I., 

 King of Armenia ; about B.C. 820. From Van. 



Presented by C. P. Devey, Esq., F.R.G.S., 

 H.B.M's Vice-Consul at Constantinople. 



IX.— 1. Fragment of a baked clay tablet insci-ibed in 

 Assyrian with a part of a duplicate text of the 

 " Eponym Canon I. " ; the text on the obverse 

 refers to the years B.C. 794-777, and that on the 

 reverse to the years B.C. 776-768. 



2. Fragment of an omen tablet inscribed in Assyrian. 



3. Fragment of a tablet inscribed with forecasts in 



Assyrian. 



4. Fragment of a private contract tablet inscribed in 



Assyrian. 



5. Babylonian contract tablet ; the name of the king 



is wanting. This tablet has a docket in 

 Phcenician. 



The first four fragments were found on the mound 

 of Kouyunjik by the late Mr. C. J. Rich in 1820; 

 and the Babylonian tablet (No. 5) came, pro- 

 bably, from Baghdad. 



Presented by Miss A. Holmes. 



X, A series of piece moulds, made from casts taken 

 from paper squeezes of sculptured slabs at Perse- 

 polis, and a series of piece moulds of details of 

 architecture made from the actual remains at 

 Persepolis. 



Presented by Cecil Harcourt Smith, Esq. 



XI. A limestone 



