12 BRITISH MUSEUM 



An important collection of Syrian antiquities ranging from about 

 3000 B.C. to 1500 B.C., of every type, from Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan's 

 excavations at Chager Bazar and Brak, in the northern Habur valley. 

 These excavations are supported by Mr. Mallowan, the British School of 

 Archaeology in Iraq and private subscribers. 



A collection of antiquities dating from the middle of the second 

 millennium, from Sir Leonard WooUey's excavations at Atchana. 



On loan : — 

 The Trustees have accepted on loan for exhibition for an indefinite 

 period a bronze hon's head from Ulchdud, Najran, S. Arabia, belonging 

 to H.R.H. the Emir Sa'ud, of Sa'udi Arabia, and fifteen ostraca with 

 Hebrew inscriptions of the 6th century B.C., referring to the siege of 

 Lachish, from the excavations of the Wellcome and Marston expedition 

 in Palestine, at Tall al Duwair, belonging to the Wellcome Trustees. 



Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 By donation : — 

 From the Egypt Exploration Society : thirty-four Late Mycenaean 

 fragments from Tell el Amarna. 



By purchase : — 

 Helmet with volute decoration, found near Bolzano, Hellenistic type. 

 Bit, decorated with horse-protomes and birds, Etruscan, c. 400 B.C. 



Sard, lenticular intaglio, pattern of crescents, amuletic class. Middle 

 Minoan. 



Sard, glandular intagho, bull and lion. Late Minoan. 



On loan : — 



Youthful male head of life-size, broken from a bronze statue, from 

 the Yemen, circa 1st century a.d., deposited on loan by His Majesty the 

 King to whom it was presented as a Coronation gift by H.H. the Sultan 

 of the Yemen. 



British and Medieval Antiquities. 



Acquisitions include very many finds made on sites in Great Britain. 

 By donation : — 



From Mr. J. Reid Moir, F.R.S. : a series of flint implements from 

 the Ipswich district, found below the Crag, in Boulder Clay, and in the 

 Orwell Gravels. 



From IMr. A. Leslie Armstrong, F.S.A. : a series of Upper Palaeolithic 

 and Mesohthic flint implements, from Mother Grundy's Parlour, Creswell 

 Crags, Derbyshire. 



From Dr. Gerhard Bersu, Hon. F.S.A. : a type-series of NeoHthic 

 pottery and implements from the donor's excavations at the Goldberg, 

 near Nordlingen, Wiirttemberg. 



From Miss F. Lefroy : a group of bronzes and other antiquities from 

 continental sites, formerly in the collection of the late J. W. Flower, 

 F.G.S. 



From Mr. G. H. Beechene : a leaden seal-die of William Fitz-Ralph, 

 found at Exton, Rutland, late 12th century. 



