64 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The marble statue of Ashur-nasir-pal has been taken to 

 pieces, and plugged with copper in several places and recon- 

 structed. 



The bases of two colossal winged figures have been faced 

 with granite, and the plinths of the wall sculptures in the 

 Assyrian Saloon have been cleaned, and the labels re-written. 



Two sections of the Kuyunjik Collection have been num- 

 bered and arranged, and eighty labels have been painted. 



One hundred and eighty-three tablets have been cleaned ; 

 and one hundred and sixty-two tablets have been repaired, 

 twenty-one fragments of an inscribed cylinder have been 

 rejoined, and five thousand boxes have been lined with cotton- 

 wool. 



Registration numbers have been painted on five thousand 

 seven hundred tablets ; fifty-seven objects have been photo- 

 graphed ; and casts of seventy-one cylinder seals have been 

 made. 



Ten satin-wood plinths have been prepared, thirty-nine cloth- 

 covered mounts, thirty-four ebonized labels, lengths of wood 

 for seventy-two labels, and a box for Assyrian squeezes have 

 been made. Forty-nine objects have been mounted. Eight 

 hundred and eighty number labels have been painted and 

 affixed to the trays. Twenty boxes to hold cylinders have 

 been prepared. 



Seven sheets of the Supplement of the K. Catalogue have 

 been passed for press, and eighty plates of the Bronze Gates 

 of Shalmaneser have been labelled, and half titles and an 

 introduction written. 



Four thousand two hundred and thi-ee tablets have been 

 registered, and material for about sixty plates of text has been 

 arranged. 



One hundred and forty-two Hittite and other tablet frag- 

 ments have been copied ; sixty-one cylinder seals have been 

 catalogued ; and thirty-eight groups of cylinders have been 

 selected for plates. 



Works in Progress. 



1. Cuneiform Texts. — Thirty-five plates for Part XXXV. 

 and twenty-five plates for Part XXXVI. have been copied. 



2. Bronze Gates of Shalmaneser. — Eighty plates in collo- 

 type have been passed for press. 



Publications. 



1. Egyptian Sculptures in the British Museum. With 



54 plates. 4to. 



2. Wall-paintings from Egyptian Tombs. Coloured plates. 

 .S. Egyptian Texts. Part V. 



4. Coptic Martyrdoms in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. 



5. Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum. With 



53 plates. 4to, 



