48 accounts, etc., of the britesh museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection has 

 been continued, and a number of important objects acquired 

 during the year have been incorporated and exhibited. 



Four hundred and forty-two labels have been written 

 and painted, and attached to objects exhibited in the 

 Galleries ; twelve stelse frames, nineteen stands, four vases, 

 saucers, &c., nine hundred and sixty labels, two hundred and 

 thirty-three satin wood and mahogany pedestals, one base for 

 a mummy case, and frames for four papyri have been made ; 

 three hundred and thirty-eight objects have been cleaned and 

 repaired ; eight hundred and sixty-seven scarabs, figures, and 

 other objects have been mounted ; the re-mounting of the 

 papyri in ventilating frames has been continued, eleven 

 papyri have been unrolled. 



One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight objects of the 

 various collections have been registered ; one thousand and 

 eleven scarabs have been catalogued ; four hundred and 

 thirty-six Coptic, Demotic, and Greek ostraka have been 

 copied and collated. 



The description of the papyri for publication has been con- 

 tinued, and twenty plates for the new part of " Select Papyri " 

 have been printed off. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the tablets has been con- 

 tinued. The contents of the case containing the cylinders, &c. 

 of the later Babylonian Empire have been re-arranged, 

 classified, and labelled. 



Two hundred "case-tablets" and tablets have been repaired; 

 three hundred and eighty-nine tablets, and three historical 

 cylinders have been cleaned; fifty-nine "joins" have been 

 made ; sixty-two moulds from Assyrian cylinder seals have 

 been made ; thirty " case-tablets " have been opened ; thirty 

 objects have been laounted on stone plinths ; and the cutting 

 of ventilation shafts behind the slabs in the Assyrian base- 

 ment has been completed. Several thousands of boxes for 

 holding tablets have been lined with cotton-wool and 

 numbered, and the arrangement of the collections according to 

 date of acquisition has been continued. 



Hand-lists and reference boards for several of the early 

 collections have been made, and the case-book of the Baby- 

 lonian Room has been continued. 



Five hundred and eighty-three tablets and fragments of 

 the various Babylonian collections have been copied for 

 purposes of publication. 



