62 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, c&c. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The genei^al re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections 

 has been continued, and the greater number of the objects 

 acquired during the year have been cleaned and repaired (where 

 necessary) in readiness for exhibition, when the installation of 

 collections in the new Extension is effected. 



The washing and cleaning of monuments in hard stone 

 and the cleansing of limestone and sandstone statues of salt 

 deposits have been continued. Many stelse have been removed 

 from their frames and examined, and arrangements made 

 for ventilating the frames. Earthenware bowls, pots, fcc, 

 saturated with salts have been soaked and cleaned. 



The Egyptian and other papyri have been removed to a 

 series of walbcases specially prepared in the Carthaginian 

 Basement. Several collections offered for purchase have been 

 removed to cases in the new Extension. King Edward's 

 Papyrus has been removed to the Assyrian Saloon. 



The labelling of the Collections has been continued, and good 

 progress has been made with addition of custody numbers. 

 Many labels have been retouched or repainted, and several 

 new and fuller labels have been prepared and attached to 

 the objects. 



Five hundred and fifty-five scarabs have been cleaned, 

 moulds and casts of the bases have been made for the Catalogue 

 of Scarabs, which is in course of publication, and the scarabs 

 have been remounted and renumbered. One thousand and 

 eighty-five numbers have been attached to scarab mounts, 

 and nine hundred and three scarabs have been specially 

 mounted. 



Eighty-two labels have been painted, two thousand nine 

 hundred and ten objects have been numbered, and fifty-four 

 objects have been photographed. 



Sixteen terra-cotta figures, vases, and bowls have been 

 cleaned and repaired. 



Thirty-four marble and alabaster plinths have been prepared ; 

 twenty-four Caen-stone pedestals and plinths have been pre- 

 pared ; nine hundred and twenty-two wooden tablets have 

 been prepared and covered with cloth ; ninety -five satin-wood 

 plinths have been prepared ; fourteen stelae frames have been 

 made and painted, and stelae fitted in them ; fourteen stands 

 for earthenware vessels have been made and painted ; two 

 oak rests for a sarcophagus cover have been made, and twenty- 

 two lengths of wood for labels have been prepared and 

 ebonized. 



