ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I5 



Three fragments of linen bandages with hieratic inscriptions and vignettes of ^chapters 

 of the Ritual. 



Linen fragments from the feet of the cartonage of a mummy representing an Asiatic 

 and Negro on the sandals. 



Part of the board painted from the inner covering of a mummy, representing the 

 mummy of the deceased, accompanied by the Soul borne to the sepulchre by the bull Apis. 



Scarlet leather ball stuffed with hair, for child's play. 



Sepulchral figure of Meriapt. 



Portion of the horn handle of an instrument terminating in the head of a lion. 



Ivory torso of a small figure of Aphrodite or Venus, from Thebes. 



Terra-cotta glazed red lamp, with stem in shape of the god Bes, Greek or Roman 

 period, from the Fyoum. 



Terra-cotta figure of Horus, borne in a chair by two priests. 



Terra-cotta figure of Eros or Cupid winged, holding a pyxis and mirror, attendant on 

 the toilet of Aphrodite or Venus. 



Terra-cotta female figure without arms, draped, wearing a chain crossed on the breast 

 and bulla. 



Terra-cotta cat. 



Terra-cotta lantern, from the Fyoura. 



These terra-cotta are of the Roman period, to which the following objects in bronze 

 also belong. 



Serapis in the character of Sebak or Souchis, from Alexandria. 



Aphrodite anadyomene wringing her tresses. 



Lamp in shape of Eros holding a wine skin or water skin, the aslios. 



Bust of Isis, of large proportions. 



Bust of Helios or the Sun. 



Lamp in shape of a horse. 



Tessera of a mummy made of wood, with Greek inscription referring to its deposit 'at 

 Hermonthis. 



A collection of fragments of calcareous stone and potsherds, ostraka, with inscriptions 

 in Demotic, Greek and Coptic, chiefly from Nagadeh and Medinat Haboo. 



Several Babylonian contracts, tablets of terracotta with cuneiform inscriptions relating 

 to loans, sales, or mortgages, dated in the reigns of the later Kings of Babylon, the most 

 remarkable of which are — 



A large tablet, dated on the 10th, and another on the 12th year of Nabonidus. 



A tablet of the 4th year of Cyrus , others of the 2nd and 7th years of Cambyses, the 

 1st, 4th, 5th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 27th, 30th years of Darius; one with Greek witnesses. 



Some of the 11th, 30tli, 36th years of Nebuchadnezzar ; a large one of the 26th year of 

 that monarch, and one of the 2ud year of Evil Merodach. 



Fragments of Babylonian tablets, with mathematical calculations. 



Fragment of dark granite or basalt, apparently from a statue of Khammurabi, King of 

 Babylon, about B.C. 1500, with inscriptions in Accadian and Assyrian cuneiform charac- 

 ters, one of the oldest example of the bilingual employment of these languages. 



A collection of bronze objects from Van, obtained for the Museum by H. E. The 

 Riglit Honourable A. H. Layard, Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople. 



Plate representing part of the walls of a city. 



Square embattled tower which has formed part of the same. 



Portions of orn.amental plates in open work. 



Claws of lion, apparently parts of thrones or legs of stools. 



Portions of collars, of furniture or other objects. 



Winged cow couchant, which has been gilt and inlaid with coloured glass or other 

 material. 



Human headed winged bull standing, which has been gilt and inlaid in the same 

 manner. 



Rim of a large plate inscribed in cuneiform with the name of Argisti, King of Minni, 

 contemporary with Sargon, King of Assyria, B c. 720. 



Gold ring with carbuncle engraved witli a Sassanian head. 



Six terra-cotta lamps, one with Greek inscription, from Jerusalem. 



Leaden fragment of coffin, with female head in relief, from Beyrout. 



Ten-a-cotta figure of the goddess Neith, in Phoenician archaic style, from Bengemmi 

 Malta. 



i^. Birch. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Fifty-four sculptures and inscriptions, three mosaics, and four hundred and fifty-seven 

 bronzes, have been mounted and rej)aired ; one hundred and twenty-two fictile vases, or 

 fragments of vases, and seventy terra-cottas, have been cleaned, repaired and mounted; two 

 objects in ivory and wood and four gems have been repaired ; six objects in iron oiled and 

 mounted; one hundred and nine casts made from gems; fifty-eight gems, and eighteen gold 



159. B4 ornaments 



