EGYPTIAN' AND ASSriiLAN ANTIQUITIES. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, ^c. 

 Egyptian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collections 

 has been continued and the greater number of the important 

 objects acquired during the year have been incorporated and 

 exhibited. 



The re-arrangement of the Egyptian Galleries has been 

 continued. The stelae have been grouped in chronological 

 order, and the labelling and re-labelling have been continued. 

 A considerable number of statues, sarcophagus covers, etc. 

 have been repaired. Stone shelves have been built into 

 several of the bays in both Galleries, and the wall space 

 which is now available for exhibition purposes is nearly 

 doubled. 



Thirty-three temporary Caen stone plinths have been 

 worked and placed in position ; eighteen granite shelves 

 and plinths have been shortened and re-used ; seventy-eight 

 alabaster plinchs have been worked and polished, and bronze 

 figures of gods and sacred animals have been mounted upon 

 them ; ten oak stelse frames, seventeen pedestals in stone 

 and wood, and four plinths have been made, and figures 

 and other objects have been mounted upon them. 



One thousand three hundred and forty-eight scarabs have 

 been mounted on cloth-covered plinths, and to one thousand 

 and forty-six of them pin-numbers have been attached. Two 

 hundred and sixty objects have been boxed. 



Three large statues of Usertsen III. have been repaired, 

 and their fragments re-joined and plugged ; the cover of a 

 sarcophagus has been repaired ; one hundred and fifty-eight 

 ushabtiu and other figures have been repaired and cleaned ; 

 the fragments of three stelai have been re-joined. 



Large tablet numbers have been painted and fixed in 

 the bays of the Egyptian Galleries, and sixty large labels 

 have been made. 



Four hundred and twenty-four descriptive labels have 

 been written and painted, and attached to the objects ; and 

 two thousand four hundred and twenty numbers have been 

 painted on antiquities, &c. 



The transcribing of hieratic papyri has been continued. 

 One thousand one hundred and seventy-three objects have 

 been registered. One hundred and nine descriptive slips for 

 the Guide to the Egyptian Gallery have been written. 

 Catalogue slips for one hundred and forty-four Ptah-Seker- 

 Asar figures and twelve v/ooden stelse have been written. 



