60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangeinent, 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 washing of the hard stone monuments, and the careful 

 cleaning of those in limestone and sandstone, have been 

 continued. 



The labelling of the exhibits, and the restoration of the old 

 collection numbers, which are important for purposes of 

 identification, have been continued. 



The sarcophagus of Qem-Ptah has been fixed on a brick 

 base faced with granite. 



A number of stelse have been treated for efflorescence of 

 salt, and dried and re-framed. 



Seventy-four Caen stone plinths, pedestals, and other mounts 

 have been worked and prepared ; eleven granite plinths have 

 been fitted and fixed ; one hundred and sixty-nine plinths in 

 alabaster, or marble, have been prepared and polished, and stone 

 and bronze figures of gods, plaques, etc., have been mounted upon 

 them ; five hundred and eighty-six plaques, tablets, plinths, 

 pedestals, and mounts of various kinds, stands for vases, etc., 

 have been made, and objects mounted upon them. 



The collections of alabaster vessels, glazed potterj^ and 

 porcelain, stone vessels, etc., which had to be withdrawn in 

 connection with the work on the new building, have been 

 washed, cleaned, and replaced in the Wall-Cases in the Fourth 

 Egyptian Room. 



Thirty-six frames for Egyptian and Coptic stelae have been 

 made, and glazed, and stelse fixed in them. Twelve mahogany 

 labels have been prepared, painted and fixed. 



Seventy-one figures in stone and bronze, stelse, earthenware 

 vessels, etc., have been cleaned and repaired ; and four inscribed 

 papyri have been mounted in glazed frames. 



Eleven hundred and seventy casts of the bases of scarabs 

 have been made in connection with the Catalogue of the 

 Scarabs which is now being prepared, and the scarabs from 

 which they were made have been cleaned and remounted. 



Two hundred and forty miscellaneous objects in porcelain, 

 wood, etc., have been mounted on cloth-covered mounts. 



450 labels have been drafted and painted on plinths, frames^ 

 etc., and numbers have been painted on 2,170 objects. 



