ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. IC 



A hieratic papyrus of the age of Kameses VIII. or IX., detailing the process against 

 a robber of silver, depositions of witness and trial of the offender. 



A hieratic papyrus of the age of Rameses III. on a similar subject. 



A hieratic papyrus of a magical nature, published by M. F. Chabas, under the title, 

 " Le Papyrus magique, Harris," -ito, Chalon-sur-Saone. 



A hieratic papyrus, apparently of historical character, and of the age of Rameses II. 



A hieratic funereal papyrus. 



•Ahieroglyphical papyrus of the class called solar litanies, representing the passage of 

 the sun through the hours of the night. 



The hand of a mummy, having on the second finger a ring with a scarabicus, bearing 

 the prenomen of Eameses II. of the 18th dynasty. 



Five inscriptions in the Himyaritic character, on calcareous stone. 



Bronze portion of furmtnve- einblema, probably part of a chair with the fore part of a Lynx. 

 From Aden. Presented by Captain Prideaux, K,E., Assistant Political Resident at Aden. 



Bronze seal -with Himyaritic inscription. From Aden. Presented by Captain Prideaux, 

 B.E., Assistant Political Resident at Aden. 



Portion of a collection of antiquities discovered and excavated by R. Hamilton Lang, 

 Esq., late Consul in Cyprus, consisting of statues in calcareous stone, objects in terra- 

 cotta, silver and bronze. Amongst the most remarkable are — 



The upper part of the statue of a bearded figure of heroic size, in fine preservation. 

 From Dali (Idalium). 



Calcareous stone tablet, with relief of au archer, and inscription in the Cypriote 

 character. From Dali. 



Two statues of Aphrodite, draped, standing and holding a dove. 



Two small statues of seated boys, wearing belts with amulets or charms. From Dali. 



Two calcareous stone heads wearing caf)s or helmets, bearded, and of Assyrian style. 

 From Dali. 



Two calcareous stone bearded heads wearing turbans. From Dali. 



Three heads, bearded and crowned, from statues of the same material, and of the so 

 called Anatolian style. 



Calcareous stone head from a statue, bearded and crowned, portrait of the Greek or 

 Roman period. 



Calcareous stone unbearded head, and another of fine style, both portraits of the 

 Greek or Roman period. 



Small calcareous stone figure of a female carrying a chair and jug, and child carrying 

 other objects. From Dali. 



Terra-cotta statue of a youthful person draped in a tunic, standing, coloured. From 

 Dali. 



Marble pedestal with bilingual inscriptions, dated in the 4th year of Melekyatun, King- 

 of Citium and Idalium. By its means the Phanician language and alphabets have been 

 discovered. 



Two calcareous stone plinths with inscriptions in the Cyj^riote character. 



Five inscriptions on marble in Phoenician characters votive, one dated in the reign of 

 one of the Ptolemies. 



.Silver spatula with inscription in the Cypriote character. From Dali. 



Terra-cotta cover of a jar with insci'iption in the square Hebrew or Chaldee of a 

 magical character. Found at Hillah, near Bagdad. . 



S. Birch. 



Depaetment of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Seventy-five pieces of sculpture and architecture, thirty-nine inscriptions, six mosaics, 

 eight bronze figures, and twenty-two objects in iron, have been mounted and repaired ; 

 the principal pieces of sculpture and architecture from Ephesus, have been placed in the 

 New Elgin Room, and the inscriptions from the same site in the New Inscription Room ; 

 progress°has been made in arranging and fixing the sculptures in the Graco-Roman 

 Rooms, and the sculptures and mosaics' in the Grseco-Roman Basement, and in transferring 

 the Mausoleum sculptures from the sheds under the colonnade to the basement ; progress 

 has been made in re-arranging and glazing the frieze of the Parthenon, and casts of a 

 number of fragments of this composition have been obtained from Athens, and their 

 respective places on the frieze have been identified ; two new cases containing fragments 

 of sculpture, have been placed in the ante- room to the Mausoleum Room ; one hundred and 

 thirty-five vases, and six hundred and forty-three objects in glass, ten-a-cotta, stone, and 

 bronze, have been cleaned or repaired ; seventy-four objects m iron have been oded and 

 mounted ; one hundred and twenty-three gems have been mounted m silver-gilt settings, 

 eio-hty-one gems have been remounted in gold, two hundred and eight gems have been 

 mounted on velvet-covered blocks, and one hundred and forty-one have been incorporated 

 with the part of the collection now exhibited ; two hundred and seventy-three wax impres- 

 sions of gems have been taken, and two hundred and nine plaster casts have been made from 



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