accounts, sec, of the british museum, 21 



Department of Oriental Antiquities. 



I, — Arrangements. 



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In the Egyptian division, the following arrangements have been made : — 



The Egyptian vestibule has been cleaned, and the sculptures have been covered up 

 for that purpose. 



The North and South Egyptian Galleries have been cleaned. 



The smaller Egyptian objects, formerly in ihe west wing, have been removed into the 

 two rooms assigned for the Egyptian objects, in the North wing ; the glass cases contain- 

 ing mummies and other objects have also been removed thither ; the cases have been 

 provided with new fittings, and the objects have been re-arranged. 



The bookcases in the study in the northern gallery have been refitted. 



Two new table-cases have been made and placed in the Egyptian rooms for the recep- 

 tion of small objects. 



New locks have been placed on table-cases and drawers. 



Ten Egyptian bronzes have been mounted. 



One Egyptian stone vase has been repaired. 



A granite lion has been repaired. 



Fourteen wooden figures have been mounted on deal pedestals. 



A small tablet has been repaired. 



A bronze aegis, and a figure of Neith, have been cleaned and mounted. 



Pour Egyptian mummy cases have been cleaned. 



Thirty-two Egyptian objects have been repaired and mounted. 



Eight boards of Egyptian tiles have been mounted. 



Five bronze daggers have been mounted. 



Fifty-six miscellaneous Egyptian objects have been mounted. 



Forty Egyptian terra-cottas have been cleaned and mounted. 



773 Scarabaei have been mounted, and impressions made of them. 



Seventeen wainscot tablets have been prepared. 



Thirty-one dozen mahogany tablets have been made. 



A frame has been made for an inscribed stone. 



Four Papyri have been removed from the wall of the Northern staircase, and three 

 xepaired. 



Casts have been made of two gnostic amulets. 



261 slips have been incorporated. 



Progress has been made in the lithographic fac-simile of an Egyptian coflBn. 



Copies have been made of inventories, descx'iptions of objects, and inscriptions. 



In the Assyrian division : — 



The Nunroud and Kouyunjik Galleries have been painted. 



The Assyrian Basement Koom has been painted. 



Shelves and fittings have been made for the new temporary room for students parti- 

 tioned off the western end of the Northern Gallery, 



An Assyrian inscription has been repaired and mounted on a stone plinth. 



Fragments of other Assyrian inscriptions have been repaired. 



The socket of a gate has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



An Assyrian inscribed stone has been moulded and cast. 



{Some Assyrian marble tablets have been cleaned. 



One large terra-cotta Assyrian vessel and two smaller ones have been cleaned and 

 Tcpaired. 



Four Assyrian cylinders in hard stone have been cast and moulded. 



Five Assyrian engraved stones have been mounted. 



Fourteen wax impressions of Assyrian engraved stones have been made. 



Thirty-eight fragments of Assyrian ivories have been cleaned, repaired and mounted. 



579 fragments of Assyrian tablets have been cleaned and repaired. 



Nine Assyrian iron objects have been repaired. ' 



A bronze Assyrian tripod has been repaired. 



^even Assyrian seals have been cleaned and re-mounted. 



Two Babylonian inscriptions have been mounted on stone. 



Three Babylonian bricks have been repaired. 



A bronze Babylonian step from Borsippa has been cleaned. 



Two Alabaster cups have been mounted. 



Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions have been cleaned. 



A small granite tablet has been mounted. 



Babylonian historical inscriptions have been cast and moulded. 



An inscription from Jerablus or Carchemish has been repaired. 



Fragments of inscriptions from Carchemish have been mounted on Portland plinths. 



Progress has been made in the classification of the collections, and the dated tablets 

 have been incorporated in chronological order. 



Tablets with texts in the Babylonian character have been collected together. 



o.yo. c 3 1,113 objects 



