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



Several objects have been remounted, and the table-cases rearranged with the incorpo- 

 rations. 



Part of a table -case for new objects has been received. 



Progress has been made in the comparison and arrangement of Assyrian and Baby- 

 lonian inscribed terra-cotta tablets, and several copied. 



Various bronze objects have been arranged in the table-cases of the Kouyunjik 

 Gallery. 



The collection of Babylonian antiquities obtained by the late Mr. George Smith has 

 been unpacked and stored in the table-cases of the iN imroud Gallery. 



78 impressions have been made of Assyrian cylinders', and 41 of Assyrian and other 

 engraved stones. 



Three casts have been made of small Assyrian objects. 



756 Assyrian objects have been mounted. 



150 Assyrian objects have been repaired. 



128 Assyrian objects have been cleaned. 



24 fragments of inscribed bricks from Bushire have been repaired. 



A Babylonian inscription has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



Two heads from Cyjirus have been mounted on stone plinths, and four Cypriote 

 objects repaired. 



26 boxes have been made for bricks from Bushire. 



417 small mounting boards have been made for Assyrian objects. 



Tracings of Egyptian mural paintings have been collated and bound. 



An inventory of Phoenician engraved stones has been prepared. 



255 objects have been catalogued. 



814 objects have been registered. 



708 descriptive labels have been prepared for objects. 



Several collections have been examined. 



The publication of the Great Harris Papyrus of Bameses III. has been completed and 

 the work issued. 



A series of photographs of an Egyptian Ritual of Kebseni has been published with 

 accompanying text. 



Classes of students have been attended through the galleries and over the collections, 

 and explanatory lectures given. 



Students and inquirers have been assisted in their researches, and the Phoenician 

 inscriptions examined for the forthcoming publication of the French Institute. 



1 1 . — A cquisitions. 



The number of ol jects acquired by the Department, including fragments, was 289 ; 

 besides which, about 2,500 other objects were acquired by the expedition of the late 

 Mr. G. Smith to Mesopotamia in the year 1875, and purchased at Baghdad. 



Amongst the most remarkable were the following : — 



Basalt head of the Ptolemaic or Roman period in the character of Isis. 



Obsidian scarabaeus with a human head. 



Stone model of a sacred enclosure or baths. 



Inscribed stone weight of alabaster. From Atreeb. 



Green stone shell from Alexandria. 



Two bronze hoes from Tel El Yahoudeh. 



Bronze mirror. 



Porcelain head of a staff. 



Sepulchral figures in porcelain of the Egyptian monarch Panetem 11. 



Blue porcelain pattera of small size with floral and other ornaments. 



Leather sandal ornamented in open work with the figure of a hawk flying. 



Four wax figures of the genii of the Amenti or Hades. 



A collection of 107 fragments of terra-cotta vases Avith cursive inscriptions in demotic 

 Greek and Coptic; the Greeks are chiefly receipts of tax-gatherers at Elephantine for the 

 poll-tax, workman's tax, and conservancy of the river. Amongst them is one dated in the 

 3rd year of Caligula, a.d. 39, an earlier date than any hitherto known ; another of the 

 0th year of Nero, a.d. 63 ; and a third of the 3rd year of Severus, A.n. 195, the lowest 

 date hitherto discovered. 



A collection of about 2,500 tablets of terra-cotta with cuneiform inscriptions in the 

 Babylonian character from Baghdad, was purchased by the late Mr. George Smith for the 

 Trustees. These tablets represent the transactions of a Babylonian banking and financial 

 agency trading under the title of " Egibi and Sons." The tablets extend in unbroken 

 annual succession from the 1st year of Nebuchadnezzar, B.C. 605, to the end of the reign 

 of Darius Hystaspis, B.C. 489, and oflfer most important chronological data. The most 

 remarkable of them are as follow — 



A series representing the 43 regnal years of Nebuchadnezzar. 



21 tablets during the reigns of Fvil-merodach, Neriglissar, and Nabonidus. 



Tablets 



