70 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, c&c. 



Egyptian Antiquities: — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections 

 has been continued and, as far as space has permitted, the 

 important objects acquired during the year have been incor- 

 porated and exhibited. 



Several monuments in hard stone have been washed, and 

 the systematic cleaning of the limestone and sandstone statues, 

 stelae, etc. has been continued. Many small vessels, bowls, 

 saucers, etc., have been treated for efflorescence of salt. 



The labelling of the collections has been continued. Broken 

 numbers have been repaired and many labels have been re- 

 touched. 



The Egyptian papyri have been removed from the cases in 

 the Assyrian basement to a room in the new building, and the 

 cases which contained them have been taken down and 

 rebuilt. 



Sixteen granite plinths have been fixed in the Egyptian 

 Galleries, and sculptures, etc., mounted on them. 



Six tablets for offerings, two capitals, five stelae, and forty- 

 eight miscellaneous objects have been cleaned and repaired. 



Seventy-seven Caen-stone, marble, alabaster, and slate 

 plinths have been prepared; one hundred and sixty-six 

 wooden plinths have been made ; eight hundred and sixty 

 wooden tablets have been prepared and covered with paper, or 

 cloth, or velvet ; forty-four labels have been prepared and 

 polished ; thirty-seven stands for vases, etc., have been made ; 

 and oak frames for forty stelse and six tablets for off'erings have 

 been made. 



One thousand five hundred and seventy-four figures of gods, 

 sacred animals, amulets, objects in porcelain have been mounted, 

 and three hundred and seventy-eight scarabs have been cleaned 

 and re-mounted. 



Three sculptures in the Egyptian Gallery have been backed 

 with slate. 



Seventy-one labels have been drafted and painted on plinths, 

 frames, etc., and registration and collection numbers have been 

 painted on two thousand seven hundred and two objects. 



One thousand four hundred and five objects have been 

 registered .or re-registered, and the slip list of the exhibited 

 objects has been continued. 



Drawings of the sculptured portions of about seventy-six 

 stelse, and copies of the hieroglyphic and hieratic texts relating 

 to them, have been made. 



