EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. Oo 



6. Cuneiform Texts. Parts XXX IV. 



7. Sets of Pictorial Post Cards : — 



Portraits of Egyptian Kings. 



Egyptian Sculpture. 



Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi. 



Egyptian Mummies. 



Babylonian Antiquities. 



Assyrian Antiquities illustrating Bible History. 



Assyrian Sculptures — reign of Ashur-nasir-pal. 



Students. — About 3,000 visits have been m-ade to the 

 Department by students and inquirers ; and 18,922 objects 

 have been issued for the use of students. 



Personally conducted Parties. — Thirty parties have been 

 personally conducted through the Department by members of 

 the staff, the number of persons being about 815, including 

 pupil-teachers from schools. 



II. — A cquisitions, 

 i.— Egyptian : — 



I.~l. Massive head and shoulders of a black basalt statue 

 of one of the Ptolemies. It was found among the 

 ruins of a small temple which had been built by 

 the side of a well in the Delta by Ptolemy IX. 

 and had been repaired by Ptolemy XIIIc It is a 

 fine example of a royal portrait statue of the 

 period, and is the best example of its class in the 

 Museum. 1st century B.C. 



2. A massive quartzite, sandstone sarcophagus made 



for Tehuti-hetep, a royal scribe, and superinten- 

 dent of the cattle-breeding establishment of a 

 king of the XlXth dynasty. On the outside are 

 cut in outline figures of all the great gods of the 

 dead, and the usual texts in which protection for 

 the deceased is promised. From the Northern 

 Delta. About B.C. 1300. 



3. A brightly painted wooden coffin of Tcheher (Teos), 



an official who flourished in the early part of the 

 Roman Period. The details and method of decora- 

 tion are copied from coffins of the Ptolemaic 

 Period, and the single line of inscription down 

 the front contains Demotic forms of words. This 

 is the only funerary monument from the Great 

 Oasis in the British Museum. From Khargah. 

 1st or 2nd century A.D. 



4. Limestone pyramidal sepulchral monument of Bak- 



en-pa-Ra, with a beautifully sculptured portrait 

 figure of the deceased standing in the hollow at 

 the base that represents the door of the tomb. 

 From Memphis. XVIIIth or XlXth dynasty. 



