48 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Cox, David. " A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect 

 in Water-colours;" 1814; with twenty-one soft-ground 

 etchings by Cox, and twenty-seven aquatints by Reeve ; first 

 edition. 



Sidney Colvin. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Egyptian Division : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection has 

 been proceeded with, and a number of objects acquired during 

 the year have been incorporated. 



The Egyptian portion of the General Guide to the collection 

 has been revised. The preparation of the edition of the texts 

 of the Tell el-Amarna tablets, and the introduction and 

 summary, have been continued. 



Five hundred and two objects have been registered and 

 numbered ; eight cufic gravestones have been registered ; 

 three hundred and fifty labels have been written and painted ; 

 catalogue numbers of ostraka, etc., have been entered in the 

 registers ; one hundred and ten printed labels have been 

 attached to scarabs ; four papyri have been mounted ; 

 three hundred and ninety-five vases, bronzes, and other 

 objects have been mounted on plinths or pedestals ; and six 

 oak and twelve satin-wood pedestals have been made for casts, 

 etc. The collection of casts purchased at the Gizeh Museum 

 in the early part of the year have been mounted on plinths. 



Phoenician Room : — 



The Semitic collections in the Phoenician Room have been 

 removed to the Second Northern Gallery, and have been 

 replaced by Assyrian sculptures. 



One thousand four hundred and seventy-three visits have 

 been made to the Egyptian and Assyrian Department by 

 students and others. They have been assisted in their 

 researches ; and eight thousand six hundred and seventy 

 objects have been given out to them for study. 



Assyrian Division : — 



A number of Assyrian slabs from the basements have been 

 arranged on the walls of the room formerly occupied by 

 Phoenician antiquities. 



The second volume of the Catalogue of the Cuneiform 

 Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection, by Dr. C. Bezold, has 



been 



