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



218 Assyrian terra-cotta inscribed tablets have been repaired, 



2,153 fragments of terra-cotta inscribed tablets have been joined. 



Seventeen terra-cotta bowls, with Hebrew and Syriac inscriptions, have been 

 joined. 



Eight Babylonian case-tablets, and one other case-tablet, have been cleaned and 

 joined. 



Two terra-cotta cylinders and twenty-one fragments of others have been joined. 



A lion's head from Abu Habba has been repaired. 



A bronze bowl, and the bronze top of a stone object, have been cleaned. 



Three bronzes from Babylon have been cleaned. 



An Assyrian bull's head in ivory, and six pieces of Assyrian ivory, have been cleaned, 

 repaired, and preserved from further injury. 



An ivory plaque has been repaired, and preserved from further injury. 



An alabaster unguentarium, with stand, has been repaired. 



The following objects have been mounted on velvet-covered blocks : — 



Nine Assyrian seals. 



Two casts of cones, with the originals. 



Eleven casts of cylinders. 



One Assyrian ivory. 



Twenty-two casts of engraved stones. 



Twenty engraved stones. 



A hoard of silver coins and fragments from Babylon. 



The examination and classification of the Assyrian and Babylonian inscribed tablets 

 has been continued. 



The published tablets ("Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia," Vols. II. and IV.) 

 have been arranged in glass boxes. 



Thirty-two boxes of tablets from Abu Habba have been unpacked. 



Inventories have been made of part of a collection of tablets acquired in the year 

 1882. 



The registration of the Assyrian objects obtained in 1881 have been finished. 



An index to the desci'iptive guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery has been pi-epared. 



The descriptive guide to the Nimroud Gallery has been continued. 



A case book to the Assyrian tablets has been commenced. 



Cylinders of Sennacherib have been collated. 



425 tablets have been copied. 



Five inscriptions presented to the Sultan have been translated into French, and 

 copies forwarded with the objects. 



3,205 objects have been registered. 



700 pieces of tablets, &c., from the old collections, have been marked. 



335 labels have been attached to objects. 



154 written and printed descriptive labels have been prepared. 



Lectures have been delivered to students. 



Thirteen Himyaritic inscriptions have been mounted on Caen stone. 



Eleven labels have been prepared for Himyaritic inscriptions. 



A cast of the Moabite stone has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



Collections offered for sale have been examined. 



Students have been assisted in their reseaches. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



The number of objects acquired dm-ing the year amounted to about 42,420, including 

 30,000 small fragments. Of these, the most remarkable are : — 



In the Egyptian division : — 



A bronze handle of a vase from Alexandria. Presented by Walter Myers, Esq., 



F.S.A. 



A fragment of a diorite statue from the temple in front of the 2nd Pyramid of Gizeh. 

 Presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



A pantheistic porcelain figure of a ram-headed deity. 



A bronze knife from Thebes. 



A bronze figure of a king. 



Two porcelain rings from Tell-el-Amarna. Presented by the Rev. W. J. Loftie. 



A white steatite scarabteus, referring to the lion hunts of Amenophis III., from Zagazio-. 

 Presented by Mrs. Eustace Smith. 



Four scarabaei, with hieroglyphs. Presented by Edw. Calvert, Esq., H.M. Consul at 

 Rhodes. 



A in-onze figure of Khonsu, with inscribed base. 



A bronze figure of Khonsu, seated on a throne. 



A bronze figure of Bast, with three cats, on a pedestal. 



A bx'onze 



