54 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 Collection has 

 been continued, and a number of important objects acquired 

 during the year have been incorporated and exhibited. 



Seventeen hundred and fifty labels have been written and 

 painted, and attached to objects exhibited in the Galleries ; 

 thirteen stelae-frames, five hundred and three wood and 

 stone plinths, pedestals, &c. have been made ; one hundred 

 and ninety-two miscellaneous figures, two hundred and 

 thirty scarabs, twelve necklaces, &c. have been mounted ; 

 two hundred and ninety-nine objects of the various collec- 

 tions have been repaired ; fittings have been inserted in five 

 table cases ; thirteen hundred and thirty-three numbers have 

 been printed and attached to objects ; fourteen hundred and 

 eighty-three ostraka have been arranged in boxes ; eight 

 paper impressions have been made, &c. 



Two thousand and ninety-four objects of the various 

 collections have been registered ; one hundred and twenty- 

 five ostraka have been copied ; forty ostraka have been 

 re-copied ; fifty fragments of papyri have been arranged ; 

 the registration of catalogue-numbers have been continued ; 

 and the transcribing of papyri for publication has been 

 continued. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the collections in the Baby- 

 lonian Koom has been completed. Two hundred and fifty 

 cylinder seals have been mounted with casts and labelled ; 

 four hundred and eighty-five stone and wood plinths, 

 pedestals, &c, have been made ; two hundred and ninety- 

 seven objects (figures, cylinders, &c.) have been mounted ; 

 four hundred and ninety-nine tablets of the Kouyunjik and 

 other collections have been cleaned and repaired ; two hundred 

 and ten fragments of the Kouyunjik collection have been 

 joined. 



The Index to the volumes of " Cuneiform Texts " has been 

 continued ; three hundred and twenty-eight tablets and 

 thirty-one cylinders of the various collections have been 

 copied ; four thousand three hundred and ninety-four tablets 

 have been registered ; catalogue numbers have been added 

 to about seventeen thousand Babylonian tablets ; eleven 

 hundred and sixty additional fragments have been incor- 

 porated in the Kouyunjik collection ; the case-books and 

 indexes of the registers have been continued. 



