50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The edition of the cuneiform texts of the collection of 

 Tell el-Amarna tablets has been published, together with fac- 

 similes, Introduction, etc. 



The Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjih 

 Collection, by Dr. C. Bezold, has been continued, and thirty- 

 five sheets have passed the press. 



The preparation of the plates for the second edition of the 

 Papyrus of Ani has been continued, and a translation and a 

 transcript of the text is in course of preparation for publica- 

 tion. 



The large granite column from Heracleopolis has been set 

 up upon a granite pedestal. Four hundred labels have been 

 written and painted ; twenty-four terra-cottas have been 

 mounted ; eighteen pedestals and six sliding boards for 

 mummies and coffins have been made ; fifty-four wooden 

 labels have been prepared and painted ; one hundred and ten 

 small objects have been mounted ; seven cases for casts, seven 

 boxes for stelae and negatives, and two cases to hold photo- 

 graphs have been made. Eight moulds for plaster casts have 

 been made ; and one plaster cast of a sarcophagus and one 

 cast of a cover have been repaired and painted. 



An alphabetical list of names attached to papyri has been 

 prepared ; forty-three paper " squeezes " of inscriptions have 

 been made ; a list of inscribed objects has been written ; three 

 hundred and forty-three objects have been registered. 



Assyrian Antiquities : 



The re-arrangement of the Assyrian slabs in the basement 

 has been begun, and a number of bas-reliefs have been fixed 

 to the walls on the line of the gallery. 



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

 tinued : one thousand six hundred and seventy -nine tablets 

 have been repaired, and ten thousand five hundred and seven- 

 teen tablets have been placed in numbered boxes ; forty-five 

 "joins" have been made ; a case list for the Assyrian Room 

 is being drawn up ; twenty-eight thousand six hundred and 

 sixty waste fragments from Abu Habbah have been stored 

 in twenty-three numbered boxes ; seven hundred and twelve 

 tablets have been copied, and five thousand four hundred and 

 seventy-nine tablets have been registered. 



Phoenician Antiquities : — 



The arrangement of the Semitic inscriptions in the Phoe- 

 nician Room has been continued ; eighty-four busts and small 

 objects have been mounted on stone plinths. 

 Cyprian Antiquities : — 

 The Cyprian collections have been arranged chronologically 

 in groups in cases built on the north-west staircase landing, 

 and in the first room of the Second Northern Gallery. 



One thousand nine hundred and eighty visits have been 



made 



