EGYPTIAN AND AssyiU-A.Nf ANTIQUITIES. 51 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of 

 the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued. 



The Kuyunjik collection has been verified with the 

 registers. 



133 tablets have been cleaned and repaired ; a number of 

 case tablets have been opened, and the fragments of the cases 

 rejoined ; casts of nineteen cylinder seals have been made 

 and mounted with the seals on blocks. 



1,374 tablets have been registered, various texts have 

 been collected, copied, collated, and arranged for publica- 

 tion in fifty plates. Eighteen boundary stones have been 

 catalogued, and the texts arranged to form a series of one 

 hundred and eight plates. 



1,164 slips from a Catalogue of cylinder-seals have been 

 written and revised for press ; and an Introduction and a 

 list of proper names have been written for the edition of the 

 Behistun texts. 



A slip-list of registration numbers, and a list of the tablets 

 bearing seal impressions have been made. 



" The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on 

 the Rock of Behistiin in Persia. A new collation of the 

 Persian, Susian, and Babylonian Texts, with English trans- 

 lation," has been completed and issued. 



Students. — 2,550 visits have been made to the Depart- 

 ment by students and others; and 6,100 objects have been 

 issued for their use. 



Personally conducted Parties. — Forty-seven parties 

 have been personally conducted through the Department by 

 members of the staff, the number of persons being one 

 thousand and forty-two, including many pupil teachers and 

 scholars from the London County Council Schools. The 

 parties came from educational and social clubs, schools, etc., 

 at Bow, Battersea, Barnsbury, Edmonton, Greenv/ich, 

 Holloway, Hornsey, Islington, Kilburn, Leytonstone, 

 Paddington, etc. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 Egyptian : — 



i. A large and miscellaneous collection of Egyptian 

 antiquities, consisting of about one thousand objects, 

 belonging chiefly to the Vlth and Xlth dynasties, 

 from the excavations carried out by the 'jTrustees in 



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