ACCOUNTS, &C., or THE BKITISH MUSEUM. I5 



Tablets of the 1st year of Barziya or Bardes, the pseudo- Smerdis, B,c. 521. 



Tablets dated in the reiga of the j^seudo-Nebuchadnezzai', son of Nabonidus, B.C. 522- 

 521. 



A tablet dated in the reign of Marduk-sar-uzur, the Biblical Bel-saruzur or Bel- 

 shazzar. 



A complete series of dated tablets for the 36 regnal years of Darius Hystaspis to 

 B.C. 489. 



Besides the tablets were the following — 



Portion of an early Babylonian basalt statue bearing an inscription of Gudea^ king of 

 Zerojal, B.C. 1800. 



Two bronze figures of deities holding cones bearing the name and inscriptions of Gudea, 

 king of Zergal, B.C. 1800. 



Several bricks with inscriptions of the same monarch. 



Besides these, another small collection of 45 tablets of the kind above mentioned, of 

 vrhich the most remarkable were — 



A tablet dated in the 14th year of Darius. 



A tablet dated in the II th year of Neriglissar, the highest date known of this monarch, 

 and exceeding by seven years that assigned to him by the Canon of Ptolemy. 



A tablet dated in the 2nd year of Evil-merodach. 



A collection of 35 bricks with Elamite inscrijitions, bearing the name of the monarch 

 Silhak, and two sepulchral vases from Bushire. Presented by Colonel Boss. 



Agate scarabseoid with Himyaritic inscription. Presented by Isaac B. Hall, of 

 Beirout. 



S. Birch. 



Depaktment of Gkeek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — .4 rrangement. 



Seventy-two sculptures and inscriptions, six mosaics, sixteen bronze figures, and 

 thirty-six bronze mirrors, have been mounted and repaired ; six fictile vases, twenty 

 terra-cottas, and eleven objects in ivory, have been cleaned and repaired; casts have 

 been made from thirty-six terra-cottas ; six new cases for sculpture have been placed in 

 the Elgin Room, and four glass shades for vases in the First Vase Room ; the collection 

 of Latin inscriptions has been arranged on shelves in the Sepulchral Basement; two hun- 

 dred and nine descriptive titles have been attached to objects; two hundred and thirty- 

 two objects have been registered, and three hundred and fifty-five objects catalogued; a 

 Guide to the sculptures in the Gr^co-Roman Basement, and a new edition of the Guide 

 to the First Vase Room, have been issued. 



II. — Acquisitions. 

 I. — 1. An alalastos of opaque variegated glass. From Carthage. 



2. Two archaic seated figures in terra-cotta. From Carthage. 



3. A lampfeeder of black fictile ware. From Syracuse. 



4. A terra-cotta lamp with Christian monogram. From Syracuse. 



Presented by J. iScutt Tucker, Esq. 



II. — 1. A terra,-cotta figure of a boy seated. 



2. A fictile cup, with patterns In red on a white ground. From Cyprus. 



3. A small oinochoe of black-ribbed ware. From Cyprus. 



4. A plain oinochoe. From Cyprus. 



5. An oinochoe, with geometric pattern painted in black on a drab ground. From 

 Cyprus. 



6. Part of the hilt of a sword, in ivory, with an incised inscription. From Cologne. 



7. Part of the scabbard of a sword, in ivory. From Cologne. 



8. A bronze fibula. 



9. A bronze fibula found at Nola, and formerly in the collection of Prince di San 

 Giorgio- 



Presented hy A. W. Franks, Esq. 



III. — An Athenian lekythos, of which the design seems to represent a male figure 

 stooping over a bath. 



Presented hy John Henderson, Esq. 



166. . B4 IV.— Two 



