1^ ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATliS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Amono- the Gold Ornaments is a small Etruscan Necklace, from Corneto, the ancient 

 Tarquinif; and among the Silver, a Patera, with embossed Figures, and a Jug, with elegant 

 Handle and applique decorations. . , ^ , t • • 



The Lead includes a thin Plate, found at Curaa3, with a brreek Inscription, containing a 

 sinoular imprecation on a woman named Valeria Codratilla. 



The Mosaics comprise some very ornamental Specimens, particularly one in eight com- 

 partments, representing Fish, and two Figure-subjects, with Groups engaged in sacrificial 

 rites. 



Amono- the Sculptures the finest are a beautiful Female Bust, with colour on the hair; 

 a Bust of Jupiter in Giallo antico ; a Fragment of a fine Bas-relief representing Satyrs; 

 and several Cinerary Urns, among which is a very beautiful specimen in Oriental Alabaster, 

 with a Handle decorated with a Medusa's Head. 



In addition to the Temple Collection, the following miscellaneous acquisitions may be 

 specified : 



I. Egyptian. — A wooden Sepulchral Figure bearing the name of Sethos I., presented by 

 Walters F. Pratt, Esq. 



An Historical Papyrus of the 3d year of Rameses the Great, presented by Mrs. de Burgh. 

 Two Historical Papyri of Rameses III., and a Magical Papyrus. 

 A Grseco-Egyptian Portrait of a Female from a Mummy-case. 



II. Assyrian. — The principal objects obtained through Sir H. Rawlinson, in the manner 

 referred to in a preceding page, are : — Two Statues of the God Nebo, inscribed with the 

 name of Semiramis, as Queen of Nineveh, and of Pul, her husband. 



A Portrait in Bas-relief, of Tiglath-Pileser TI. 



A Bas-relief representing the Father of the Biblical Pul, on one side of an inscribed Stele. 



Twenty-two Slabs of Hunting Scenes, from the Palace of Ashur-bani-pal III. 



Three elegantly sculptured Pavement Slabs, from Koyunjik. 



Three Slabs, containing architectural representations, also from Koyunjik, and about 

 twenty-four other Slabs, containing, for the most part, War Scenes; the majority excavated 

 by Mr. Hormuzd R.assam. 



Fifty-two cases of Sculptures, the greater pai t from the most recent Palace at Koyunjik, 

 excavated by W. K. Loftus, Esq., and containing — 



Twelve Slabs, on which are representations of the return of the King from the lion-hunt. 



Twenty-three other Slabs, or portions of Slabs, with Hunting Scenes, engraved with 

 peculiar beauty and in remarkable preservation, in which the King Ashur-bani-pal III. 

 appears slaying Lions, hunting wild Asses, sacrificing dead Lions before an Altar, Slc. &:c. 



The Inscription of Sennacherib, in eight pieces, recording the War of that King with 

 Hezekiah, King of Judah, which has been cut from the Great Bulls at the entrance of 

 Sennacherib's Palace at Koyunjik. 



A large collection of Inscribed Tablets, fragments of Ivory, Iron Work, Spears, Axes, 

 &c., from the north-west and central Palaces at Nimrud ; excavated by W. K. Loftus, Esq. 



A collection of objects from Muqueher, in Southern Babylonia (the " Ur of the Chal- 

 dees"), consisting of Bronze and Leaden Vessels, Tablets, Chains of Iron, &c., together 

 with Stone and Clay Instruments from Abu-Shahrein, in the same neighbourhood ; exca- 

 vated by J. E. Taylor, Esq., H. M. Vice-Consul, Bussorah. 



Twelve Cases, the results of the researches undertaken by W. K. Loftus, Esq., for the 

 Assyrian Excavation Society, and containing a large and curious collection of Copper Instru- 

 ments (probably the remains of an Assyrian Forge) from Tel Sifr ; unbaked and inscribed 

 'J ablets of very early date from the same place: inscribed Tablets from Warka, bearing 

 the names of Seleucus and Antiochus, in Cuneiform writing ; together with some curiously 

 painted Cones from the same place ; presented by the Assyrian Excavation Society. 



A small conical Clay Cylinder, containing notices of the works of Nebuchadnezzar ; pre-- 

 sented by the Duke of Somerset. 



Several fragments of Cylinders and Inscribed Bricks from the New Palace at Koyunjik, 

 Sinkara, the Birs-i-Nimrud, and Zurghal ; procured through the exertions of Sir H. C. 

 Rawlinson, k. c. b. 



A collection of engraved Cylinders, Gems, and Seals, consisting of twenty-seven 

 Cylinders, and many Seals in Agate, Cornelian, Lapis Lazuli, &c. ; purchased of 

 T. K. Lynch, Esq. 



A collection often Cylinders and Seals in Agate, Cornelian, and Lapis Lazuli; pur- 

 chased of W. S. W. Vaux, Esq. 



III. Greek. — A collection of Antiquities from Dardanus, Ophrynium, Novum Ilium, and 

 the Cemetery of Troy ; excavated by J. Brunton, Esq., of Her Majesty's Civil Hospital, 

 Renkioi ; presented by the Right Honourable Lord Panmure. 



Marble Head of an heroic personage, probably of a son of Niobe ; from the collection of 

 the late S. Rogers, Esq. 



Two very fine Vases, found at Athens ; from the collection of the late S. Rogers, Esq. 



A collection of Painted Vases, Terracottas, and other objects, comprising a Panathenaic 

 Vase, bearing the name of Nicccrates, Archon of Athens in the year of the^Battle of Issus, 

 B. C. 333, together with a Sepulchral Stele ; from excavations at Tolemata, Tukera, and 

 Ben-Ghazi (in the ancient Cyrenaica), conducted by F. H. S. Werry, Esq., Her Majesty's 

 Vice-Consul of Ben-Ghazi. 



A large 



