58 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, 8fc. 

 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. 



The contents of the Third Egyptian Room have been 

 entirely re-arranged in the new Wall-cases, and large 

 numbers of objects have been exhibited for the first time. 

 Many of the antiquities have been cleaned, re-mounted, and 

 classified, and labelled according to modern nomenclature. 



The Wall-cases on the landing of the north-west staii^ase 

 have been provided with shelves, and a number of antiquities 

 of the Preclynastic and Archaic Periods have been arranged 

 in them. 



Eight large reproductions of scenes and vignettes from the 

 Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead have been made 

 from the papyri of Ani and Hu-nefer, and exhibited above 

 the Wall-cases in the First and Second Egyptian Rooms. 



Eight large moulded frames have been prepared, and fixed 

 and painted ; the mummy cases have been re-polished ; 

 ninety-seven ebonized mahogany labels have been made and 

 fixed ; and one thousand one hundred and sixty wood, stone, 

 and alabaster plinths have been made for figures of gods and 

 other objects. Fittings have been fixed in five Table-cases. 



Sixty-seven Coptic ostraka have been cleaned and treated 

 to prevent efiiorescence, and forty-seven vases, figures, and 

 other objects have been repaired; five hundred and thirty- 

 eight flat plinths have been covered with cloth or velvet. 



Three hundred and fifty-two objects of the various collec- 

 tions have been registered, and sixteen hundred and forty- 

 nine objects have been verified with the registers and 

 re-numbered. Information has been collected for labels, and 

 two thousand one hundred and ten labels have been written 

 and painted. Sixty-five Coptic texts have been copied. 



Eleven hundred and ninety-nine objects have been 

 mounted ; a Coptic mummy-shirt has been mounted and 

 exhibited ; one hundred and twenty-five objects have been 

 transferred to the Egyptian Rooms from the Gallery and 

 cleaned and mounted ; a fac-simile of the Papyrus of Ani has 

 been mounted on two stands and exhibited. 



Eighteen small papyri have been unrolled, and eighteen 

 collections of antiquities have been unpacked and examined. 



The transcribing of Hieratic papyri has been continued, 

 and proofs of sixteen columns of text have been read in 

 proof. 



