bo accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The mummies and coffins, and the greater part of the 

 funereal furniture belonging to them, have been arranged 

 chronologically in the First and Second Egyptian Rooms. 

 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. 



Three hundred and eighty-one labels have been written 

 and painted, and attached to objects exhibited in the 

 Galleries ; eleven frames for papyri, three boxes for mummies, 

 ten cases for stelie, forty one oak shelves for mummies, one 

 board for a skeleton, four hundred and ninety-five plinths and 

 pedestals, and three hundred and fifty ebonized labels have 

 been made ; two hundred and sixty-one figures, bronzeS; &c., 

 have been mounted; sixty scarabs have been mounted; two 

 hundred and fifty-eight objects have been cleaned or repaired ; 

 three stands have been made for vases ; the remounting of 

 the papyri in ventilating frames has been continued; and a 

 sounding-board has been fixed in the lecture-room. 



Eight hundred and sixty-eight objects of the various 

 collections have been registered ; one hundred and forty- 

 seven ostraka have been copied ; five hundred and twenty 

 have been catalogued, and sixty-eight have been translated 

 or revised. 



The description of the papyri for publication has been con- 

 tinued, and sixteen plates and ten sheets of letterpress for 

 the new part of the " Select Papyri " have been printed oii\ 



A " Guide " to the Firs^ and Second Egyptian Rooms has 

 been prepared and issued. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



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

 tinued. 



Three hundred and five tablets have been cleaned ; one 

 hundred and eighty-four have been repaired ; eleven " seal- 

 cylinders" have been cleaned; forty-eight moulds have been 

 made from seal-cylinders; a number of "case-tablets" have 

 been opened and repaired; the numbering of the boxed 

 tablets has been brought up to 26,470 ; some thousands of 

 boxes for tablets have been lined with wool, and the arrange- 

 ment of the collections according to the date of acquisition 

 has been continued ; and one hundred and twenty-one "joins " 

 have been made. 



Hand-lists and working labels for some of the early 

 collections have been made, and the case-books for the Baby- 

 lonian objects have been continued. 



