EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN ANTIQUITIES. 49 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, Sfc. 



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 miscellaneous antiquities which were exhibited in the 

 Egyptian Vestibule, and belonged to various periods, have 

 been removed, and a series of monuments chiefly of the period 

 of the IVth to the Vlth dynasties have been arranged there 

 in chronological order. 



The greater part of the contents of the Fourth Egyptian 

 Room have been re-arranged, and new shelves and fittings 

 have been added to accommodate the recent acquisitions. 



The Mummy-cases in the First and Second Egyptian 

 Rooms have been re-arranged and re-lettered, and the labels 

 have been altered as required by the incorporation of recent 

 acquisitions. 



The ushahtiu figures have been classified, and as far as 

 possible arranged in chronological order. 



The old Wall-cases from the Third Egyptian Room have 

 been rebuilt in the Carthaginian Basement, and the Assyrian 

 and Babylonian bricks have been temporarily arranged in 

 them. 



Sixty-seven alabaster plinths have been made, and bronze 

 objects have been mounted upon them ; one hundred and ninety- 

 six satinwood pedestals have been made, and six hundred and 

 fifty-seven yellow-wood pedestals have been prepared, and 

 figures of gods have been mounted upon them. Two hundred 

 and thirty wooden labels have been made and fixed. 



Three Table cases have been fitted with cloth-covered 

 fittings ; brass stands with rings have been fitted to forty- 

 four alabaster and hard stone vases, and glass bottles ; two 

 hundred and thirty objects have been remounted ; twenty 

 Greek and sixty-nine Coptic ostraka have been exhibited, 

 with descriptive labels, in the Table-cases. 



The Papyrus of Queen Netchemet has been remounted 

 and exhibited in a new oak frame in the Egyptian Gallery. 



Thirty-two vases, figures, fee, have been cleaned, and 

 thirty-one objects have been repaired ; thirty-one pieces of 

 Coptic and Byzantine needlework have been cleaned and 

 exhibited in the Third Egyptian Room. The frescoes have 

 been removed from the Egyptian Gallery, and re-backed, 

 and repaired, and exhibited in the Third Egyptian Room in 

 specially prepared Standard Cases. 



