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features is not allowed to overpower the dignified and intellectual 

 character of the head. The Department was also fortunate in obtaining 

 an almost unique example of Roman Republican sculpture, non- 

 Etruscan and un-hellenized, in a cinerary urn, carved in very high 

 relief with a representation of an equestrian procession to a sacred 

 shrine. An Athenian marble lekythos and a bronze figure of a young 

 Etruscan warrior also deserve mention. 



In the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities the following 

 accessions deserve special mention : A gold bowl of the Hallstatt 

 period, from Budapest ; a group of Roman objects found together at 

 Felmingham, in Norfolk, in 1844 ; a bronze bowl, engraved with 

 mythological subjects in the 12th century, and found in the Severn 

 near Tewkesbury (with another already in the Museum) in 1824, and 

 now presented by Miss Lawrence in memory of her grandfather, 

 W. L. Lawrence, Esq. ; and an exceptionally fine English seal of the 

 13th century, found at Cannington in Somerset. An interesting 

 acquisition of a different kind was a repHca of the seal of the 

 Confederate States of America, presented by Mrs. Norman V. Randolph 

 on behalf of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 



The Department of Ceramics and Ethnography was fortunate in 

 securing a considerable number of valuable specimens of Chinese art. 

 These included a model of a bullock-cart in red pottery (Sui dynastj^) ; 

 a silver statuette of a lady (Tang dynasty) ; four beautiful examples 

 of Sung ware, a bulb-bowl, a vase, and two water-pots, presented by 

 the Keechong Hong, of Hongkong ; and a porcelain ewer of the same 

 period, presented hj Messrs. Yamanaka. Five pieces of Worcester 

 porcelain were presented by Viscount Dillon. A group of ceremonial 

 and ethnographical objects from Tibet and Bhutan was presented by 

 Mrs. Lewin ; and a large gold plaque from Ashanti, for wearing by a 

 royal messenger, was presented by Sir Bignell Elliott, K.B.E. 



The Department of Coins and Medals acquired three Greek coins of 

 exceptional rarity, viz., a silver didrachm from Olbia, of the 5th cent. 

 B.C.; a silver tetradrachm from Scione, of about 480 B.C., of which 

 only three other specimens are known ; and a gold stater, apparently 

 unique, bearing the name of Tachos, issued for the payment of Greek 

 mercenaries in Egypt during the rising of Tachos against Artaxerxes II. 

 in 361 B.C. Roman coins included 400, mainly of Carausius, from the 

 Linchmere find, presented by Mrs. G. H. Hoyle and Miss F.E. Abbott, 

 and five gold coins from the Arras find ; while foreign mediaeval coins 

 were represented by a selection of gold coins of the Low Countries 

 from the Eeckeren hoard. 



Excavations were continued by the joint expedition of the British 

 Museum and the University Museum, Philadelphia, on the site of Ur 

 of the Chaldees, under the leadership of Mr. ('. L. Woolley. Much 

 work was done in clearing the terrace underlying the great Ziggurat, 

 and the adjoining temple of the Moon-goddess and another sanctuary 

 and house of a priestess. Tablets recording the finances of the tempk; 

 were plentiful, but the most important single object found was a very 

 large stela recording the buildings and irrigation works of the king 

 Ur-Engur (3rd millennium B.C.). 



The following are the principal publications issued during the year : — 



Catalogue of Additions to the MSS., 1911-1915. 



Reproductions from Illuminated MSS., 3rd series (new .edition). 



Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits, vol. VI. 



Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, part 38. 



Cuneiform Texts from Cappadocian Tablets, pait 3. 



