52 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. 



Eight hundred and forty labels have been written and 

 attached to objects exhibited in the Galleries. New wall- 

 cases have been erected and fitted in the Second Egyptian 

 Eoom, and the antiquities which were in the old cases have 

 bee\n cleaned, remounted, and classified and re-arranged in 

 them with new labels. Numbers in red have been added to 

 many of the more important objects to facilitate reference to 

 the Guide. 



A model of a neolithic Egyptian grave has been made and 

 exhibited in the First Egyptian Eoom 



Seventeen glazed oak frames have been made for inscribed 

 stelae ; and five hundred and ten wooden plinths and 

 pedestals, and ninety-six alabaster and stone plinths have 

 been made for bronze and porcelain figures of gods and other 

 objects. 



One hundred and ten figures, vases, &c. have been cleaned 

 and repaired, and seven hundred and ninety-four objects 

 have been mounted. 



Twelve hundred and seventy objects of the various 

 collections have been registered, and eleven hundred and 

 sixty have been verified with the registers and re-numbered. 

 Information has been collected for labels, and eight hundred 

 and forty drafts of labels have been made. An index to the 

 Egyptian registers has been prepared. 



The transcribing of hieratic papyri has been continued, and 

 copies in hieroglyphics have been prepared for publication. 



One hundred and thirty-four ostraka have been copied, 

 and twenty-seven copies have been revised and re-copied ; 

 sixty plates of Coptic texts from ostraka have been prepared 

 for publication. 



A number of store-casts and moulds have been identified 

 and re-arranged, and thirty-eight paper squeezes of inscrip- 

 tions have been made. 



Assyrian Antiquities : — 



The general re-arrangement of the Babylonian and Assyrian 

 collections (the unexhibited section) has been continued. One 

 thousand and nine cylinder-seals have been numbered and 

 arranged in drawers : these seals have been mounted on 



