EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 55 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, 8fC. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection 

 has been continued, and the greater number of the important 

 objects acquired during the year have been incorporated and 

 exhibited. 



The remainder of the sepulchral stelae of the Xllth 

 dynasty, which were formerly exhibited in the Egyptian 

 Vestibule, have been built into bays in the Northern Egyptian 

 Gallery, and labelled. 



The collections in two standard-cases in the Third and 

 Fourth Egyptian Rooms have been re-labelled and re- 

 arranged. 



The re-arrangement of the Egyptian Galleries has been 

 continued, and the casing, repairing, labelling, and re-labelling 

 of the stelae have been practically completed. Stone plinths 

 have been built into several bays for stelae and other objects, 

 and a number of slate shelves have been fitted. 



The south wall from the chapel of the pyramid of one of 

 the great Queens of the Island of Meroe, which was presented 

 by the Sudan Government in 1905, has been rebuilt on a 

 stone plinth, in a bay on the west side of the Southern 

 Egyptian Gallery. 



Ten granite plinths and pedestals have been made, and 

 statues have been fitted and mounted into them ; one hundred 

 and forty-five alabaster plinths have been worked and 

 polished, and bronze figures of gods and sacred animals have 

 been mounted upon them ; fourteen oak pedestals and sixty 

 satin-wood pedestals have been made, and figures and other 

 objects have been mounted upon them. 



Seven hundred and eighty-five scarabs have been mounted 

 on cloth-covered plinths, and numbers have been attached 

 to them. Two hundred and sixty-eight ostraka have been 

 boxed. 



Five large statues have been repaired ; sixty-six ushabtiu 

 figures have been cleaned and repaired ; one coffin has been 

 repaired and put together; seventeen stelae have been re- 

 paired, and fifty-five stelae have been provided with new 

 frames. 



The wall paintings from the tombs of Thebes, which were 

 formerly exhibited in the Egyptian Gallery, have been mounted 

 in two new standard cases in the Third Egyptian Room. An 

 additional shelf has been inserted in the wall-cases of the 

 Third Egyptian Room, and the gods and sacred animals have 

 been grouped upon it. 



