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and for the most part from known sites ; specially selected to illustrate 

 periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the 

 collections. 



Six antiquities from Iraq, namely (1) a steatite bowl, carved round the 

 outside in low rehef with human and animal figures, dating from about 

 2500 B.C., (2) a granite vase with Kons and bulls carved in rehef, dating 

 from before 3000 B.C., (3) a bronze figure of a goat, date uncertain, (4) a 

 bronze figure of a naked woman holding a bottle, about 2300-2000 B.C., 

 (5) a clay plaque with a hunting scene, (6) another clay plaque with a Hon 

 in rehef, both about 1900 B.C. These objects have been purchased with 

 the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund. 



From Egypt ; Head of Rameses II and top of pyramidion in bronze, 

 presented by Lady Tirard, and from South Arabia, a Himyarite 

 inscription in stone, from Sana'a, presented by Dr. Alex MacRae. 



From Syria. 



From the excavations at Chager Bazar in Northern Syria, supported by 

 the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, the Trustees of the Ashmolean 

 Museum, Oxford, Mr. L. C. G. Clarke for the Museum of Archaeology and 

 Ethnography, Cambridge, and principally by the Director of the Expedi- 

 tion, Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan, a valuable collection of pottery, bronze 

 objects and figurines illustrating principally the civilisation between 

 2500 and 1500 B.C. 



The Trustees have accepted on loan sixteen portraits of the second 

 century a.d., mostly from Hawara, Egypt, from the Trustees of the 

 National Gallery, and twenty-six Egyptian antiquities, illustrating 

 sculpture in stone, wood, ivory, and metal, from Mr. C. S. Gulbenldan. 



Green and Roman Antiquities. 



The year's acquisitions are of wide variety rather than of outstanding 

 individual importance. The best piece is a large late Geometric Attic 

 amphora, others of interest being a Hellenistic marble head of a woman, an 

 Etruscan bronze statuette of Mercury, and a Hellenistic Greco-Egyptian 

 dwarf in terracotta. Other Greek pieces are a small Geometric bronze 

 bull, a Corinthian alabastron of the sixth century B.C. and a vase in the 

 form of a duck of the fourth ; Roman are some vase -fragments and a small 

 marble head of Dionysos. Crete is represented by some good Minoan 

 vase-fragments, and Cyprus by a small hmestone statuette of Amon-Re 

 and by Bronze and Iron Age pottery. There are also a number of gems, 

 Minoan, Archaic Greek, Hellenistic, Etruscan and Roman. 



British and Medieval Antiquities. 



Series of flints assigned to the Middle Le Moustier industry, excavated 

 by Mr. J. P. T. Burchell from a lateral vaUey-deposit near Northfleet, 

 Kent. Presented by Mr. J. P. T. Burchell. 



Series of Mesohthic flint microliths from Risby Warren and Sheffield's 

 Hill, near Scunthorpe, Lines. 



