ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I7 



The 5lh, 7th, and 8th of Cambyses. 



The 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 16th, 18th, and 20th of Darius. 



The 218th, and the 1 55th or 219th years of the Arsacidje, 



Fraofments of Babylonian mathematical tablets and omen tablets, a tablet containing 

 curious drawings of birds, men, animals, &c., and an important fragment containing a 

 portion of the annals of the 37th year of Nebuchadnezzar. 



Several engraved and inscribed signets and cylinder seals of the Babylonian and 

 Persian periods, and some with Pehlevi inscriptions. 



Head-dress of black stone, from the statue of a goddess, containing an inscription of 

 Dungi, King of Babylonia, about 2000 B.C. 



The most important of the Antiquities obtained from Assyria by Mr. Rassam, 

 were : — 



Portions of the bronze parts of two large folding doors from Balawat. Each door 

 consisted originally of about seven plates of metal about 8 ft. in length, nailed upon a 

 wooden framework about 3 inches thick. Each metal plate contains two rows of 

 repousse Avoi'k representing the campaigns of Shalmaneser II. against Khupuskia, 

 Ararat, the lake region of Van, Hamath, the sources of the Tigris, Gozan, Tyre, Sidon, 

 &c., &c. The original height of these doors was about 22 feet. 



Portions of two smaller folding doors of similar construction, containing representations 

 of the hunting expeditions of Shalmaneser II. 



Alabaster coffer, with lid, containing an inscription of Assur-natsir-abla, in which 

 were found two alabaster tablets inscribed with copies of the same inscription. 



A large cylinder from Kouyunjik, containing the A nnals of Assur-bani-abla. It is the 

 most perfect copy yet discovered of the so-called cylinder A, and contains nearly 1,4.00 

 lines of writing. 



A piece of a fine historical cylinder of Assur-bani-abla, containing a list of the kings 

 of Palestine and Cyprus, who sent him tribute when on his first expedition to Egypt. 



An important fragment of the synchronous history of Assyria and Babylonia. 



Some fragments of the Creation and Gisdhubar legends. 



A frao^ment of an Akkadian magical text, the writing exquisitely fine. 



Model of an ox's hoof in hard baked clay, inscribed with omens. 



A number of fragments of Tablets giving valuable information concerning the language, 

 history, private life, religion, &c., of the ancient Assyrians. 



Some portions of small ivory figures (evidently priests holding baskets), of excellent 

 workmanship, from Balawat. 



Some glazed ornamental tiles (evidently for the centre of the ceiling of a room ), with 

 knobs and hole for cord for suspending lamp, from Nimroud. The knobs are inscribed 

 round their base with the name of Assur-natsir-abla. 



A very fine rliyton of Grajco-Egyptian workmanship. 



Portion of a fine moulded glass dish of the Roman period. 



A fine cylinder containing an inscription of Nebuchadnezzar. 



S. Birch. 



Depaktment op Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — A rrangement. 



Twenty-three sculptures and inscriptions, and one hundred and eleven objects in bronze, 

 iron, silver, and lead, have been mounted, cleaned, and repaired ; two fictile vases, forty- 

 eight terra-cottas, and one object in plaster have been cleaned, repaired, and mounted ; 

 twenty-seven casts have been made from gems ; eighty-one gems and twelve gold orna- 

 ments have been mounted on velvet covered blocks ; four new cases for sculpture, one 

 table case and two glass shades have been placed in the room of Archaic Sculptures, and a 

 new glass shade in the Second Vase Room ; four wall cases in the Second Egyptian 

 Room have been made dust-proof, re-papered and arranged ; table cases A, C, D, and F, 

 in the Bronze Room have been fitted with new locks and re-arranged ; the arrangement 

 of the sculptures in the new Lycian Room has been completed ; seven hundred and forty- 

 one descriptive titles have been attached to objects ; two thousand and three objects have 

 been catalogued, and four hundred and three objects registered ; a Guide to the Second 

 Vase Room in two parts, and a new edition of the Guide to the Exhibition Rooms have 

 been issued. • 



1 1 . — A cquisitions. 



I. — A silver ink-bottle, two silver vase-handles, three objects in jet and one in bronze, 

 all from Cologne. 



Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



II. — A sardonyx vase which has been burnt probably on a funeral pile. 

 Fresented hy the late John Henderson, Esq. 



III. — A fragment of pottery from Mycenss. 



Presented by Professor Max Miiller. 

 170. C IV. — A marble 



