70 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — Engraved Gems. 



1. Onyx cameo, with head of Heracles. Akra, Punjab. 



2. Limestone lenticular gem, with Cretan goat and eagle 

 seizing serpent. Ahra, Punjab. 



3. Limestone cylinder; an eagle seizing a serpent, three 

 times repeated. Akra, Punjab. 



4. Rock-crystal seal, engraved with sea-urchin and tunny- 

 fish, of Mycenaean period. Moni, Cyprus. 



IX. — Lead. 



1. Weight, 158'10 grammes, with figures of Heracles and 

 Hermes. 



2. Weight, 86"504 grammes, with a club in relief, in- 

 scribed ^l^^ 



3. Weight, 35 •289 grammes, with an amphora in relief, 

 inscribed MY (compare the coin-types of Myrina). 



4. Anchor weighing 1,268 lbs., stamped in large letters 

 ZEYE YPATOE, apparently the name of the ship (Torr, 

 Ancient Ships, pi. 8 ; compare Jahrbuch d. Arch. Inst. III., 

 p. 229). Found of the Coast of Cyrene. 



X. — Porcelain. 



Fragment of glazed ware with brown stripes. Datcha, 

 near Knidos. 



A. S. Murray. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — A rrangement. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. — The acquisitions of the year 

 have been incorporated, and a number of card labels have been 

 written. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — The following sections have been 

 cleaned, and the objects re-arranged where necessary, viz.: — 

 Samoa, Savage Island, Easter Island, Tierra del Fuego, 

 Patagonia, Brazil, Tonga, Torres Straits, Egypt, Tahiti, New 

 Guinea (Romilly Collection), and Ceylon. 



The specimens on the tops of the wall-cases have been 

 twice cleaned. 



Two hundred and thirty-four labels, with duplicates, 

 have been printed with the hand-press in the Department, 

 nearly all of them being for this gallery. 



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