50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



and eighty one case-numbers have been printed and attached 

 to objects exhibited in the Kouyunjik Gallery. Two thou- 

 sand nine hundred and nine written numbers, and seven thou- 

 sand eight hundred and thirty-eight printed numbers have 

 been attached to boxes containing tablets. A list of the 

 tablets remaining unregistered has been made. 



The list of the words in the Tell el-Amarna tablets has been 

 continued to No. 81 and revised ; the second proof of the sheets 

 has been corrected, and the texts arranged according to the 

 names of the writers. The transcriptions and translations 

 have also been revised. The preparation of the catalogue 

 of the K collection of tablets has been continued. The 

 second edition of Volume IV. of the " Cuneiform Inscriptions 

 of Western Asia" has been proceeded with, twelve collections 

 of tablets having been examined for duplicates. Further 

 additional texts have been copied for the work, the " Additions 

 and Corrections," etc., have been completed, and most of the 

 proofs finally corrected. 



One thousand and thirty-nine visits have been made to the 

 Egyptian and Assyrian Department by students and others. 

 These have been assisted in their researches, and four thousand 

 four hundred and twenty-two objects have been given out to 

 them. 



II. — A cquisitions. — Purchases. 



I. — 1. A bronze figure in the attitude of a Canephoros, the 

 lower part terminating in a cone, bearing an inscription in 

 archaic characters and in the Accadian language. According 

 to this inscription, the figure was dedicated to the Goddess 

 Nana, daughter of the god Sin, by Arad-Sin (or Eri-Aku), son 

 of Kudurmapuk, a Babylonian king who reigned about B.C. 

 2300, for the preservation of his own life and that of his 

 father. 



2. A bronze figure, supposed to represent a king of Baby- 

 lonia. Date about B.C. 2200. From Abu Habba. 



II. — 1. A socket for a door-post, of black diorite, inscribed 

 with a dedication by the Babylonian King Gudea to the 

 divinity Nina. From this inscription the socket appears to 

 have belonged to a temple built by Gudea at Nina-ki, a suburb 

 of his chief city Lagash. The language is Accadian. 



2. Part of a large basin of black diorite, bearing an Accadian 

 inscription in characters of the most archaic form known. The 

 name of E-annadu, the son of A-kur-gal and one of the most 

 ancient rulers of Lagash in Babylonia, occurs on this monu- 

 ment. The inscription shows that it belonged to a temple, 

 probably built by him, and it was perhaps used to contain 

 lustral wa'<er. 



3. A Babylonian boundary-stone of black diorite, bearing 



the 



