50 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



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. 



In the re-arrangement of the Egyptian Galleries the 

 tables for offerings, or altars, which were dispersed throughout 

 the Galleries, have been brought together in chronological 

 order in two bays in the Central Saloon. Several covers of 

 sarcophagi have been repaired. New stone shelves have been 

 built into eight bays. The labelling of the exhibits has 

 been continued. 



A considerable number of the larger objects in the 

 Galleries have been carefully cleansed. 



Ninety-three granite plinths have been placed in position 

 and " fixed " ; fifty-one Caen stone plinths have been worked 

 and placed in position ; thirty-six white alabaster plinths 

 have been worked and polished, and figures of gods and 

 sacred animals mounted on them ; and other figures and 

 objects have been mounted on smaller pedestals. 



Three funerary boats have been cleaned and repaired, 

 and figures of their crews placed in position : four inscribed 

 coffins of the Xllth dynasty have been repaired, and thirteen 

 altars, twelve stelae, and one hundred and forty-two 

 miscellaneous objects have been cleaned, and several of 

 them repaired. 



755 scarabs, small figures of gods, etc., have been mounted. 



One papyrus and seventeen fragments have been cleaned 

 and mounted, 1,690 ostraka have been " boxed," 1,960 scarabs 

 have been cleaned, and 134 painted plaster fragments have 

 been rejoined. 



362 labels have been written and painted, and attached 

 to the objects ; and 5,528 numbers have been painted on 

 antiquities, etc. 



4,518 objects have been registered. 890 descriptive slips 

 for the new Guide to the Egyptian Galleries have been 

 written. 14 stone stelse have been copied and catalogued, 

 and 31 wooden stelae have been catalogued. 



2,740 slips for a catalogue of scarabs have been written, 

 and 3,049 have been revised for press. 



