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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. 



Five hundred and seventy labels have been written and 

 painted, and attached to objects exhibited in the Galleries ; 

 the plaster casts in the First Egyptian Rooms have been 

 repaired and refixed ; a number of Egyptian coffins have 

 been re-arranged in the new wall-case in the First Egyptian 

 Room. Four hundred and fifty-five figures, stelae, &c. have 

 been mounted ; two stelae-frames, two hundred and sixty- 

 eight stone and wood plinths and three hundred and twelve 

 ebonized labels have been made ; three and fifty scarabs 

 have been mounted ; fourteen bronze figures. &c. have been 

 cleaned and repaired ; eighty wooden stands for vases have 

 been made ; two hundred and eighty-one objects of the 

 various collections have been repaired ; twelve paper impres- 

 sions have been supplied to students ; and five hundred and 

 forty numbers have been printed and attached to objects, &c. 



Five hundred and ninety-seven objects of the various 

 collections have been registered ; four hundred and eleven 

 ostraka have been copied ; two thousand five hundred and 

 twenty-tv>^o ostraka have been verified ; and the registration 

 of catalogue-numbers have been continued. 



A volume of " Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, 

 Kerasher, and Netchemet, with Supplementary Text from the 

 Papyrus of Nu, Transcripts into Hieroglyphics, Translations,, 

 &c." has been issued. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the collections in the Baby- 

 lonian Room has been continued ; four hundred and two 

 stelse, bricks, figures, &c. have been mounted on stone and 

 alabaster plinths ; one hundred figures have been mounted 

 on wooden plinths ; three hundred and sixty-nine tablets 

 have been cleaned and two hundred and twelve have been 

 re-joined and repaired ; eighty-nine plaster impressions of 

 seal-cylinders have been made ; eight thousand boxes for 

 holding tablets have been lined with cotton-wool ; and the 

 arrangement of the collections up to the date of acquisition 

 has been continued (last number, 47,710); thirteen plastei 

 casts have been made; new fittings have been made for six 

 cases ; and the glass in the Nimrud Gallery has been removed, 

 cleaned, and replaced, and the slabs ventilated. 



An Index to the paper " squeezes " and an Index to the 

 volumes of " Cuneiform Texts " have been made. 



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