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



Fragments of a bronze plate, beautifully saw-pierced. 



A bronze ornament, perhaps part of a throne, decorated with the figure of a sitting Hon, 

 and inlaid with rows of composition concentric rings, alternately black and white. Traces 

 of gold overlaying. 



Figure of a bull in bronze (the face wanting), kneeling, the figure of a man standino- 

 on the back. 



Fragments of a leaden object cut into square compartments, inlaid with blue and white 

 composition rings, and set at one end with blue glass beads. 



A stone slab, inscribed with" the name of Minua, King of Van, dedicated to the o^od 

 Haldi (about 700 B.C.). ° 



The upper part of a finely carved female figure in ivory, on the head a headdress, 

 ornamented with bands and rosettes, somewhat after the Assyrian style, the hair arranged 

 in ringlets reaching to the shoulders, and wearing an elaborately worked necklace. 



An ivory ornament in the shape of a flower, with overhanging petals, evidently the 

 capital of a small column. 



A human figure, winged and eagle-headed, after the style of the Assyrian figure 

 supposed to represent the god Nisroch. White ivory. 



A similar ivory figure, dyed black. 



A closed hand in ivory, perhaps part of a sceptre. 



The following have been transferred from the India Museum : — 



An Egyptian mummy, in the outer case, of Nasuta, 



Fragment of an Egyptian sarcophagus, in gi-anite, of Ai, King of the 18th dynasty. 



Fragment of an Egyptian stone inscription, in sandstone. 



Small inscribed Egyptian altar. 



Two large Assyrian slabs, with a mythological representation. 



An Assyrian slab, representing an attack upon a town. 



Two plaster casts of Assyrian heads. 



Two plaster casts of Pehlevi inscriptions, from Hadji- Abad. 



Two bricks, inscribed with the name of Nebuchadnezzar, from Babylon. 



A Punic inscribed monument. 



A small contract-tablet, dated in the 10th year of Darius, King of Babylon. 



S. Birch. 



Department of Gbeek and Eoman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Eighty-one inscriptions, twenty-five sculptures, eight pieces of architecture, and three 

 casts, have been repaired and mounted on plinths ; five bronzes have been cleaned, re- 

 paired, and mounted ; seventy-nine fictile vases, five terra-cottas, and three paintings 

 have been cleaned and repaired ; the collection of Etruscan sculptures and black fictile 

 ware has been transferred from the Sepulchral Basement and the Room of Archaic 

 Sculpture to the New Etruscan Room in the north gallery on the upper floor ; the 

 sculpture and architecture stowed in the sheds under the colonnade have been removed 

 to the Grseco-Roman Basement and to the new sheds ; several fragments of sculpture 

 and architecture have been transferred from the Elgin Room to the Sepulchral Basement ; 

 the removal of the Greek inscriptions from the old Inscription Room has been completed ; 

 the collection of moulds from Museum Sculptures, formerly in the custody of Mr. 

 Brucciani, has been removed from his warehouse, in Holborn, to the basement of the 

 Museum; new glass shades have been placed over the large terra-cotta sarcophagus from 

 Caere, and over two fragments of architecture in the Elgin Room ; four hundred and 

 forty-nine descriptive titles have been attached to objects ; four hundred and two objects 

 have been catalogued, and one hundred and seventy-two objects registered ; Part I. of 

 the Guide to the Elgin Room, and a new edition of the Guide to the Exhibition Rooms, 

 have been issued. 



II. — Acquisitions, 



I. — 1. Fragment of a slab of the eastern frieze of the Parthenon, containing part of 

 the feet of figures 16, 17, and 18, in Michaelis' Parthenon, plate 14, slab III. 



2. Fragment from the northern frieze of the Parthenon, containing a youthful male 

 head, which may have belonged either to one of the horsemen or to one of the figures at 

 the head of the procession. These two fragments were formerly in the possession of Mr. 

 Steinh'auser, in Karlsruhe. 



II. — 1. Part of a sepulchral relief, in marble, representing Hermes (?), a male fio-ure 



standing and a female figure seated. Each of these three figures is in the act ot 



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