EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 59 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Egyptian Antiquities: — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections 

 has been continued and. all the important objects acquired 

 during the year have been incorporated and exhibited. 



The labelling of the exhibits has been continued. 



The sub-plinths of many stelse, etc. in the Vestibule have 

 been faced with granite, and several of the larger objects have 

 been provided with granite bases and pedestals. 



The washing and cleaning of several monuments in hard 

 atone have been carefully continued. 



The remounting and repair of the Sekhet statues in the 

 Northern Egyptian Gallery have been completed. 



Ninety-eight Caen stone plinths and pedestals have been 

 worked and prepared ; fourteen granite plinths and facings 

 have been fitted and fixed ; one hundred and twenty-six white 

 alabaster plinths have been prepared and polished, and bronze 

 figures of gods, pendants, amulets, etc., have been mounted 

 upon them ; six hundred and fifty-two plaques, plinths, pedestal, 

 mounts of various kinds, stands for vases, etc., have been made, 

 and objects mounted on them. 



The Collections in the Wall-Cases and Standard Cases in 

 the Fourth Egyptian Room have been removed temporarily 

 to allow the cases to be rebuilt in their former positions, and 

 the work of rebuilding has begun. A papyrus frame has been 

 made. 



Forty-two wooden labels have been prepared, painted and 

 fixed, and two hundred and forty pin numbers have been fixed ; 

 two boxes for students have been made. 



Thirteen stelae frames have been made and stelse fixed in 

 them ; seven of these stelse were repaired and washed. Three 

 hundred and seventy-five numbers have been attached to 

 mounted objects. 



One mummy case has been carefully cleaned, and fifty-seven 

 miscellaneous objects have been repaired. 



978 scarabs, plaques, amulets, etc., have been mounted on 

 cloth-covered plinths. This number includes the scarabs which 

 were removed from their plinths for casting purposes and were 

 remounted. 



532 labels have been drafted and painted, and numbers have 

 been painted on 2,978 objects. 



1,065 casts of scarabs for photographic purposes have been 

 made, and fastened in groups to cardboard. 



