ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



Fac similes of two Egyptian Papyri have been prepared iti coloured lithographs, com- 

 prising 19 plates, which are now nearly ready for publication, 

 288 Egyptian objects have been mounted. 

 35 Tablets and Altars have been framed and glazed. 

 98 Egyptian Antiquities have been mounted on stone pedestals. 

 10 Framed Papyri have been examined and cleaned. 

 2,891 labels have been attached to objects in the General Collection. 



Medal Room. — The Catalogue of Greek Coins has been commenced with the series of 

 Italv, and the Coins of the provinces of Etruria, Umbria, Picenum, J^atium, Saranium, 

 the Frentani, and part of Campania, have been described on 228 slips. 



The detailed arrangement of the Roman large Brass Coins has been coiTipleted ; the 

 Second Brass Coins have been arranged in the same manner, and a similar arrangement 

 of the Class of Denarii has been commenced. 



In the Oriental series, 2,321 unplaced Coins have been decyphered and arranged, and 

 many improvements effected in the order of every part of the Collection. 



In the Mediaeval and Modern series, the labelling of the Cabinets has been continued 

 and permanent descriptive cards have been substituted for temporary ones ; the Collection 

 of Counters has been arranged, and a Catal()gue has been made of the London Tokens of 

 the 17th Century. 



1 1 . — Acquisitions. 



(1.) General Antiquities. I. Egyptian. — A small Collection of Antiquities presented 

 by Miss Warne, comprising, among other objects of interest, an Alabaster Vase inscribed 

 with the name of Seneferu, a monarch of an early Dynasty. 



A Sepulchral Tablet for Naia, a scribe of about (he period of the 20ih Dynasty ; pre- 

 sented by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. 



Ten Sepulchral Tablets of the period of the 19th and 20th Dynasties; the most re- 

 markable is one for an ^Ethiopian prince, Untahar; two others are for officials in the Palace 

 of Rameses II., at Thebes. 



II. Assyrian. — Seventeen Assyrian and Babylonian Cylinders, purchased from Dr 

 Hyslop, of Baghdad, some of them in excellent preservation, and exhibiting new modifica- 

 tions of types previously known. On one of these is a curious representation of a winged 

 griffin, analogt)US to that upon the coins of Chios. 



Seven Gems, also purchased from Dr. Hyslop, four of which bear Sassanian in- 

 scriptions. 



III. Greek. — A Painted Vase, representing, apparently, a scenic subject.; presented by 

 Captain Fellows. Three large and rare Terracotta Vhscs, believed to have been found at 

 Cales in Campania : the body of each vase is in the form of a female head, and above it are 

 attached various ornaments in high relief, with remains of polychrome decoration. A marble 

 votive Tablet, dedicated to Jupiter by Agathangelos of Abilene, in the Decapolis, for the 

 safe return of the Emperor Hadrian; dated in the 455th year of the sera of the Seleucidse, 

 A. D. 133. It is especially valuable as containing, in addition to the Greek inscription, two 

 lines written in the Palmyrene character. — From the collection of Lord Bessborough. 



IV. Phoenician. — Four Sepulchral Tablets bearing Punic inscriptions, brought from the 

 neighbourhood of Carlhage, by the late Sir Thomas Reade ; presented by Sir Thomas 

 Philhpps, Bart. 



V. Roman. — Sixteen Vases of Latian ware fi'om Alba Longa ; presented by Joseph 

 Beldam, Esq. 



The marble Cover of a Sarcophagus, on which is the statue of a lady, life-size, rechning 

 on a couch, imd holding on her lap a bust, probably that of her husband. A Tablet, pos- 

 sibly part of a sepulchral monument, in which are sunk two deep recesses, enclosing the 

 busts of L. Antistius Sarculo, Magister of the College of the Salii, and of his wife Antistia. 

 These two marbles formed part of Lord Bessborough's collection at Roehampton. 



A Bronze statuette of Harpocrates, of good style and execution. 



A Gold Armlet found in a tomb at Kertch. 



A highly interesting specimen of Roman Cameo glass manufacture, being the upper 

 portion of a vase discovered at Pompeii in 1831, similar in fabric and style to the 

 Portland Vase. It is decorated with foliage, fruit, and birds, in white bas-relief upon a 

 blue ground. The lowest portion, and several intervening fragments, of this vase, have for 

 some years been in the British Museum, and the remainder is now in the Museo Borbonico 

 at Naples. The part now acquired "as bequeathed, with the three Terracotta Va>es already 

 described, by the late Miss Auldjo. 



VI. British Collection. — A perfect stone Quern found near Ivverne Courtenay, Dorset, 

 and presented by the Rev. Frederick Bliss. 



Portions of im Urn found near Kingston-on-Hill, Surrey, presented by H.R.H. the 

 Duke of Cambridge. 



Two Bronze Swords, and other objects of the same metal, found in Aberdeenshire; pre- 

 sented by the Earl of Aberdeen, k.g. 



36— Sess. 2. B 3 A Bronze 



