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3,573 slips for a catalogue of scarabs have been written, and 

 3,509 have been revised for press. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the unexhibited section of 

 the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections has been continued. 

 Fifteen slabs have been carefully cleaned. 



5451 tablets have been boxed; 170 tablets have been cleaned 

 and repaired ; 6 Assyrian ivories have been cleaned and re- 

 mounted. 



Casts of 87 cylinder-seals have been made and mounted with 

 the originals on blocks; casts of 104 Hittite, Palmyrene, and 

 other amulets, seals, etc., have been made and mounted; and 

 40 labels and 480 registration numbers have been written and 

 printed. 



1,075 tablets and other objects have been registered ; list of 

 tablets bearing seal impressions has been continued. 



228 texts have been collected, copied, collated, and arranged 

 for publication in 50 plates. An Index to the 24 parts of 

 " Cuneiform Text" has been prepared. 



23 plates of text from Boundary Stones have been translated; 

 and many additional descriptions have been written for the 

 new edition of the Babylonian and Assyrian Guide. 



Publications. — A " Guide to the Egyptian Collections in 

 the British Museum " has been compiled and issued, and a 

 second edition of the " Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian 

 Collections " has been prepared and issued. 



Part XXIV. of " Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets " 

 has been issued. 



Students. — About 3,100 visits have been made to the 

 Department by students and others ; and 6,987 objects have 

 been issued for their use. 



Personally conducted Parties. — Fifty-three parties have 

 been personally conducted through the Department by members 

 of the staff, the number of persons being fourteen hundred 

 and seventy, including many pupil teachers and scholars from 

 the London County Council Schools. The parties came from 

 educational and social clubs, schools, etc., at Barnet, Barnsbury, 

 Battersea, Covent Garden, Dulwich, Edmonton, Hammersmith, 

 Hertford Heath, Hornsey, Islington, Leyton, Marylebone, New 

 Cross, Rotherhithe, Walthamstow, and West Ham. Parties 

 also came from Birmingham, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sowerby 

 Bridge, etc. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 i.— Egyptian: — 



1. A sculptured limestone panel, in two sections, which 

 formed the ' false door " of the tomb of Erta-n- 

 ankh^ a high official of Memphis. On it is cut a 



