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



Bricks Jind cones from Tel-loh, containing dedicatory inscriptions of Gudea, viceroy of 

 Zerghul. About 2,000 B. c. 



Stone socket of a gate from Tel-loli, inscribed witli the name of Llg-NInsu (or Tas- 

 Ninsu), son of Gudea, viceroy of Zerghul. About 2000 B.C. 



A cone from Tel-loli, containing a dedicatory inscription of Lig-Bagus (or Tas-Bagus), 

 viceroy of Zerghul. About 2000 B.C. 



A terra-cotta tablet, on which is stated that it is a copy of a stone tablet set up by 

 Dungi (a king who reigned about 2000 B.C.) at Cutha. 



A tablet containing an inscription, in the Akkadian tongue, of Ru-sak, an early king. 



An inner and an outer case tablet, dated in the 54th year of the reign of Antiochus. 



A tablet containing a list of Merodach-baladan's plantations. 



A contract tablet, dated in the accession year of Samsu-irba, a king of Babylon, formerly 

 unknown. 



Some valuable fragments of syllabaries, in four columns, throwing new light ou the 

 Assyrian and Akkadian tongues. 



Several bilingual lists, among which is one containing, in duplicate, the names of the 

 months in Akkadian and Assyrian. 



Some fragments of tablets, containing portions of plans, evidently of the city of Babylon. 



A fragment of an unbaked clay tablet containing a portion of the Chaldean account of 

 the Deluge, making several additions to the text. 



Fragments of Babylonian mathematical and omen tablets, some magical and one 

 cabalistic text, and some fragments referring to augury by means of geometrical figures. 



S. Birch. 



Depaetment of Geeek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Forty-seven sculptures, architectural marbles, and inscriptions, four casts of sculpture, 

 one mosaic, one terra-cotta, and twenty-five bronzes, have been mounted and repaired; 

 one cast has been made from a gem ; twenty-five fictile vases, eleven terra-cottas, and 

 nine objects in bronze, have been cleaned and repaired; the arrangement of the sculptures 

 in the Archaic Room has been nearly completed, five glass shades have been placed over 

 objects in the Archaic Room, and two in the Second Vase Room ; a slielf for sculpture 

 and four corbels have been i:)laced in the Mausoleum Room, and portions of the Mausoleum 

 frieze repaired ; one marble fragment, and thirteen plaster casts of fragments, have been 

 adjusted to the frieze of the Parthenon, and two of the slabs have been shifted and 

 reifixed ; the glass on the entire frieze has been taken down, cleaned, and replaced. The 

 marbles in one of the sheds under the colonnade have been transferred to the new sheds 

 and to the Sepulchral Basement. New editions of the Guides to the First Vase Room 

 and to the Grajco-Roman sculptures. Part I., have been issued. Four hundred and fifty- 

 four descriptive titles have been attached to objects ; four hundred and twenty-six objects 

 have been catalogued, and ninety -nine objects registered. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



Donations and Bequests. I. — 1. Fragment of a long Greek inscription, containing a list 

 of contributors, probably to some public loan. 



2. Fragment of an inscription from a mediaeval tombstone. This and the preceding 

 are from Rhodes, and j^robably from the Church of St. John there. 

 Presented hy ±1. R. II, the Prince of Wales. 



II. — A fragment from the frieze of the Mausoleum, representing the upper part of an 

 Amazon rushing forward to deal a blow with her battle-axe. This fragment was seen 

 by Mr. Newton in the Imperial Museum at Constantinople in 1852, and was then 

 recognised by lilm as belonging to the Mausoleum. In 1864 a cast from it was obtained 

 for the Museum. Published, Newton, Travels and Discoveries, I. plate I., p. 44. Among 

 the fragments of the frieze of the Mausoleum discovered in the course of the excavations 

 at Budrum in 1856 was part of a left thigh, which was found to belong to the figure 

 now presented to the Trustees. 



Presented hy H. I. M. Abdul Hamed, the Sultan of Turkey. 



Q CARMINIVS 

 III. — 1. A bronze circular dish, with flat rim pierced for suspension, inscribed OPTATVS 



LAEIBVS 

 found near Milan and formerly in the Biondelli collection. 



207— Sess, 2. D 2. Stamp 



