54 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSET A. 



Students : — 

 One thousand six hundred visits have been made to the 

 Egyptian and Assyrian Departme.nt by students and others, 

 who have been assisted in their researches ; and eleven thou- 

 sand two hundred and seventy-two objects have been issued 

 to them for study. 



II.— J. cquisitions. — Purchases. 



i. Egyptian : 



1. A stone cylinder inscribed with the names and 



titles of Pepi I., King of Egypt, about B.C. 3233. 

 It appears to have been made for a certain 

 " chief precentor or reader, who performed the 

 will of his lord." The British Museum already 

 possesses a somewhat similar cylinder in bronze. 



2. Two wooden boats, fitted with captains and 



crews, which are models of the funeral boats or 

 barges in which the dead were ferried over to 

 the tombs on the western bank of the Nile. 

 They belong to the period of the Xllth dynasty ; 

 about B.C. 2500. From Meir, in Upper Egypt. 



3. Two green glazed steatite cylinders inscribed 



with the names and titles of Usertsen III. (?)and 

 of Amenemhat III., Kings of Egypt; about 

 B.C. 2300 : Xllth dynasty. 



4. Green glazed porcelain case for a mummied snake. 



The snake was laid upon a layer of " biscuit," 

 in which grooves had been made to receive the 

 coils of the serpent ; a grooved covering of 

 " biscuit " was next laid upon it, and when the 

 edges had been joined, the whole object was 

 covered with the liquid glaze, and then baked in 

 an oven. XXth dynasty ; about B.C. 1200. From 

 Thebes. 



5. Three limestone stelae. XXth dynastv ; about 



B.C. 1200. From Thebes. 



6. Bronze chain with pendant heart. From Thebes. 



7. A small carnelian face from a plaque, having upon 



it a golden figure of a king in relief. Very fine 

 work. XXth dynasty ; about B.C. 1200. 



8. A papyrus inscribed in the hieratic character, 



with a series of funeral compositions written 

 for Queen Netchemet, the wife of Her-Heru, the 

 first priest king of Egypt; about B.C. 1040. 

 This papyrus is one of the most important, and 

 is probably the oldest of all, belonging to the 

 . . period 



