EGYPTIAN AND ASSmiAN ANTIQUITIES. 51 



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. —Arrangement, Cataloguing, Sfc. 



Egyptian Antiquities : — 

 The general re-arrangement of the Egyptian Collection 

 ha,s been continued, and the greater number of the important 

 objects acquired during the year have been incorporated and 

 exhibited. 



The arrangement of the monuments of the IVth, Vth, 

 and Vlth dynasties in the Egyptian Vestibule has been 

 completed, and progress has been made with the labelling 

 and casing of the stel?e in soft limestone exhibited there. 



The re-arrangement of the contents of the Third and 

 Fourth Egyptian Rooms has been completed, and series of 

 numbers in red have been attached to the antiquities 

 described or mentioned in the new Guide. 



The re-arrangement of the Egyptian Galleries has been 

 begun, and progress has been made with the casing and 

 labelling and re-labelling of the stelse. New slate shelves 

 have been fitted into several of the bays, and a series of 

 Xllth dynasty stelae has been fixed and built up in one bay. 



The mastaba tomb of Ur-ari-en-Ptah, an officer of Pepi II., 

 about B.C. 3200, has been reconstructed in the Assyrian 

 Saloon. 



The moulds and stone casts of Egyptian and Assyrian 

 Antiquities have been arranged, and duj)licate lists of them 

 have been made. 



The collection of 7,130 ostraka has been re-arranged. 



Twelve granite plinths and pedestals have been made, 

 and statues have been fitted and mounted upon them ; one 

 hundred and sixty-six alabaster plinths have been made, and 

 figures of gods, &c., have been mounted upon them ; twenty 

 mahogany plinths, one hundred and eighty-six satinwood 

 pedestals, and thirty-three oak pedestals have been made, 

 and objects have been mounted upon them. Six hundred and 

 sixty wooden tablets have been covered with cloth ; thirteen 

 pedestals have been lined with cloth ; and nine hundred and 

 eighty labels have been made and fixed. 



Two Table-Cases have been provided with cloth-covered 

 fittings, and the necessary trays have been made ; and about 

 three hundred objects have been remounted. One hundred 

 and twenty-one frames for stelae have been made, and a 

 considerable number of old frames have been repaired. 



Twenty-two objects, vases, figures, &c., have been cleaned 

 and repaired; two coffins have been repaired and put 

 together ; the wooden figures in several groups of models 

 have been repaired and refixed ; and three stone stelae have 

 been repaired. 



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