EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 55 



Parts IX., X., and XT. of " Cuneiform Texts from Baby- 

 lonian Tablets, &c. in the British Museum," and an illustrated 

 " Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities " have 

 been compiled and issued. 



Students : — Two thousand three hundred and sixty visits 

 have been made to the Departnrent by students and others ; 

 and four thousand and ninety-five objects have been issued 

 to them for study. 



II. — A cquisitiotiS. 



Purchases. 

 i. Egyptian : 



1. Six dried and partly mummified bodies from a 



Predynastic cemetery in Upper Egypt. They 

 were found in shallow oval graves hewn in the 

 rock. They are representatives of a fair-haired, 

 light-skinned race, which appears to have been 

 descended from the aboriginal inhabitants of 

 the Nile valley. 



2. A collection of flint knives, spear-heads, scrapers, 



axe-heads, &c., of the predynastic period. 



3. A collection of vases made of diorite, agglomerate, 



breccia, and other stones, of the early dynastic 

 period. 



4. Small red breccia lion, of the early dynastic 



period. 



5. Black granite vase inscribed with a cartouche of 



User-en-Ra, a King of the Yth dynasty ; about 

 B.C. 3300. 



6. White limestone stele of Meri-Heru, signed by 



the sculptor Ren-senb ; Xllth dynasty. 



7. Limestone stele of Sa-Menthu and his wife Mest- 



neter ; Xllth dynasty. 



8. Part of a relief in which a man is depicted 



receiving off'erings from his son Nekhta ; Xllth 

 dynasty. 



9. Painted limestone stele of Renf-senb ; Xllth 



dynasty. 



10. Painted limestone stele of Nekht ; XVIIIth 



dynasty. 



11. Limestone stele of Amasis, an official ; XVIIIth 



dynasty. 



12. Limestone table of off'erings made for Ati. 



13. Green basalt table of off'erings. 



14. Black granite stele which was made for one 



Takan ; late period. 



