14 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, OCC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



5,853 reoistration numbers have been placed on objects. 



All tlie acquisitions of the year 1832, amounting to 881 in number, have been regis- 

 tered, and, a<; far as possible, incorporated. 



Fnc similes of the Himyaritic inscriptions have been commenced ; they are to be pub- 

 lished in a series of lithographic plates. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 The acquisitions of the Department are 881 in number, and may be classed as follows: — 



Egyptian. — Fragment from (he side of the throne of a statue in arragonite, with the 

 name of an heretical monarch of tlie 18th dynasty ; from Tel-el-Amania. J'resented by 

 the Rev. T. R. Maynard. 



Leg from a colossal statue of a king or deity in red granite. 



Bronze lioat-head, ornamented with the head of the God Horus. 



A Net, found in a tomb at Thebes. 



An ancient Painter's Brush, found in a tomb at Thebes, and presented by H. Hoj)ley 

 White, Esq. 



Six pieces of Fine Linen from the wrappings of a mummy, inscribed with various chapters 

 of the ritual and vignettes. 



Figure of a Hawk from Edfoo, presented by J. Manship Norman, Esq. 



Four gnostic Amulets; one of them is of remarkable character, having figures of a triad 

 of divinities, Bait, Athor, and Akori, and being inscribed with a elegiac distich in their 

 honour. 



Bahylo)nan and Persian. — Terra-cotta Cylinder, with an inscription containing the name 

 of Nebuchadnezzar. 



A Persian uem of fine work, representing a king on horseback hunting a wild boar. 



Phoenician and Early Oriental. — A Phoenician Scarabaeus from Gaza, resembling in 

 workmanship those found in Sardmia. 



A block of Marble from an arch at Tripoli, inscribed with a bilingual inscription,.Latin 

 and late Phoenician; it has been described by Gesenius, ScripturcB linguaque P/iosnicitB 

 monumenta, No. LXiV, Presented by Her Majesty the Queen. 



Twenty-eight bronze Plates, with Himyaritic inscriptions, from Sanaain Arabia ; one 

 of them piesented by dptain R. L. Playfair, and the rest by Colonel Coghla.i, Political 

 Resident and Commandant at Aden. 



Metal Bowl, covfred inside and out with inscriptions in three different characters, appa- 

 rently of a talismanic nature; presented by Colonel Coghlan. 



British and Mediaeval. — Two flint Implements from the drift at Heme Bay, presented by 

 A. Wiley, Esq. 



A collection of flint Implements, partly from the drift beds in the neighbourhood of 

 Abbeville, partly fr<an later formations in the s.Lme neighbourhoo<] ; presented by M. Boucher 

 de Perthes of Abbevdie. 



Stone Hammer found near Balmerino, Co. Fife; presented by W. D. Ramsay, Esq. 



An extensive collection of stone Implements found in Denmark, and some specimens 

 from Porlutial, all illustrating the earlier periods of British Antiquities, 



Bronze Spearhead and Daggei'-blade from the 'i'hames at Thames Ditton, presented by 

 the Earl of Lovelace; a bronze Spear-head, from Headford, Co. Galway, presented by 

 R. Stewart, Esq. ; a fine circular bronze Shield, two bronze Swords, and other Weapons 

 found in the Thames. 



A cciUection of Urns, stone Implements, and other Antiquities, excavated by the late 

 T. Martin Atkins, Esq., principally near the White Horse lidl, Berks; presented by 

 Mrs. Martin Atkins. 



Three British Urns, found at Standlake, Oxon, presented by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, Presi- 

 dent of Trinity College, Oxford; a British Urn, found in a barrow at Bradley, Co. Derby, 

 presented by C. Sprengel Greaves, Esq., Q. c. ; and three Urns from barrows in the New 

 Forest, excavated and presented by J. R. Wise, Esq, 



A stone moidd for casting bronze Spear-heads, found at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick ; pre- 

 sented by A. H. Montgomery, Esq. 



A massive gold Armlet, found near Hull, and two Irish gold ornaments. 



Weapons and other remains of a Romano-Briti>h character discovered at Spetisbury, 

 near Blandford, Dorset, presented by J. Y. Akerman, Esq, 



Sepulchral tablet for Volusia Faustina and Claudia Catiola, with their portraits; the 

 inscription gives the Roman name for Lincoln, in which city the tablet was discovered in 

 1859. 



Roman leaden Coffin> found in the parish of Bethnal Green, not far from the line of the 

 Roman road to Stratford. 



Lump of lead found in the Thames, stamped with the Christian monogriim and the name 

 of Syagrius, probably Afranius Syagrius, Secretary to the Emperor Valentinian I., and 

 Consul, A.D. 382; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Specimens of pottery found on the site of Roman kilns in the New Forest, Hampshire, 

 excavated and presented by J. R, Wise, Esq. 



A collection 



