EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 55 



The granite shrine set up at Philse by Ptolemy IX, 

 King of Egypt, B.C. 171-117, presented by the Egyptian 

 Government in 1893, has been mounted on a brick and 

 granite pedestal. Three hundred and fourteen labels have 

 been written and painted ; fifteen stelae have been mounted 

 in oak frames ; thirty-six wooden labels have been prepared 

 and painted ; twenty-four vases have been mounted on stands ; 

 six hundred and six objects have been mounted on plinths 

 and pedestals ; the coffins presented by the Egyptian Govern- 

 ment have been repaired, and iron standards and blocks have 

 been fitted in the exhibition cases to hold them ; two moulds 

 and twenty-four paper " squeezes " for plaster casts have been 

 made. 



Eight hundred and fourteen objects of the different collec- 

 tions have been registered. 



The preparation of the plates for the second edition of the 

 Papyrus of Ani has been continued, and eighteen sheets of 

 the transcript of the text and translation have been passed 

 for press. 



Assyrian Antiquities : 



The re-arrangement of the Assyrian bas-reliefs in the base- 

 ment has been completed, and the room has been re-opened 

 to the public. 



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

 tinued. Three hundred and seventy-seven tablets have been 

 repaired ; five thousand and forty-three have been placed 

 in numbered boxes; three hundred and fourteen "joins" 

 have been made ; and the case list for the Assyrian Room 

 has been continued. 



Sixteen hundred and eighty-nine copies of fragments of the 

 82-7-14 collection have been made ; and six thousand three 

 hundred and fifty tablets have been registered. 



Six hundred casts of cylinder seals have been made. 



The third volume of the Catalogue of the Cuneiform 

 Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection, by Dr. C. Bezold, has 

 been published, and ten sheets of the fourth volume have 

 been passed for press. 



Phoenician and Cyprian Antiquities : — 



The arrangement of the Semitic inscriptions and Cyprian 

 antiquities has been completed, and the exhibition rooms have 

 been re-opened to the public. A description of them has 

 been written for the General Guide. 



Students : — 



One thousand six hundred and nineteen visits have been 



made to the Egyptian and Assyrian Department by students 



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