56 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Eighty-four casts have been made from cylindrical and 

 other seals, and mounted with the originals on cloth-covered 

 mounts. 



Six thousand five hundred and twenty-eight tablets offered 

 for purchase have been unpacked and examined. 



Sixty-five labels have been drafted and painted, and 

 numbers, registration and collection, have been painted on 

 about 3,000 tablets, &c. 



Seventeen hundred and two tablets have been registered, 

 and 1,400 slips for the slip catalogue have been written. 



One hundred and twenty-two texts from tablets, &c., have 

 been copied and collated ; and 1,408 catalogue slips have been 

 written for the Catalogue of the Kuyunjik Collection. 



Eight hundred and three slips have been revised for the 

 supplementary volume of the Catalogue of the Kuyunjik 

 Collection. 



Wo7'ks in Progress. 



1. Cuneiform Texts. — Material is being collected for Part 

 XXXIV. 



2. Kuyunjik Catalogue {Supplement). — About 2,028 slips 

 for this volume have been written. 



Publications. 



1. " The Greenfield Papyrus, or the Papyrus of Nesitaneb- 

 tashru, daughter of Painetchem II. and Nesi-Khensu, about 

 B.C. 970." 



2. " Coptic Biblical Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt." 



3. " Egyptian Texts," Parts II. and III. 



4. " Babylonian Boundary Stones and Memorial Tablets 

 in the British Museum." With an Atlas of Plates. 



5. " Cuneiform Texts," Parts XXXII. and XXXIII. 

 Students. — About 3,451 visits have been made to the 



Department by students and others ; and 10,870 objects have 

 been issued for the use of students. 



Personally conducted Parties. — Fifty-two parties have 

 been personally conducted through the Department by members 

 of the stafi", the number of persons being about 1,500, including 

 pupil-teachers and others from schools. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 i. — Egyptian : — 



I. — 1. A series of 40 slices of calcareous stone fragments on 

 which are drawn in outline figures of kings, high 

 ofiicials, &c., and drafts of texts which were to 

 be cut on statues. XVIIIth Dynasty. From the 

 Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes. 



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