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An ivory statue of the god Bes ; female figui-e without head or arms. 

 Seated figures of Isis with Osiris upon her knees, in steatite, granite, and limestone. 

 Hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Coptic inscriptions upon limestone ; stone implements. 

 Necklacf-s made of beads in ruby, amethyst, cornelian, jasper, garnet, marble, glass, 

 crystal, coral, and porcelain, chiefly from Thebes and Sakkara. 



Cylinders, scarabs, heart, symbolic eyes in lapis lazuli, steatite, cornelian, jasper, glass, 

 and porcelain. 



White porcelain elephant with rider (wanting legs of animal and arms of figure) ; lion 

 in porcelain, with head-dress of Nefer-Atmu; ibex in green-glazed porcelain; frog in 

 pink coral. 



Clay seal with name of Thothmes III. 



Head-rests in granite, hajmatite, and wood. 



Wooden model of sickle, with name of Thothmes III. 



Part of an Egyptian scejitre, 4 feet 9 inches long. 



Leatlier sandals. , 



Case made of pajsyrus, containing stems of leaves and flowers. 



Fragments of millefiori glass flowers, with white petals and yellow centres. 

 Terra-cotta vases and stamps. 

 Embroidered cloth from Ahmim. 



Eighty-six Greek and Demotic ostraha, from Thebes. 

 Demotic contract, and other papyri. 



The above list does not include 123 ostraka, and about 60 other objects purchased in 

 Egypt towards the end of the year, but which have not yet arrived in England. 



Assyrian and Babylonian : — 



The number of objects obtained during the year was 77, of which the following are the 

 principal : — 



A cone-shaned cylinder of baked clay, anciently broken, inscribed with 181 lines of 

 writing in three columns. The inscription refers to the i-estoration of certain Babylonian 

 temples by Nabium-abla-usur (Nabopolassar). It begins with the titles of this ruler, 

 who is called " king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, the glorious prince set up by 

 the hands of JSJebo and Merodach." Nebuchadnezzar, his "eldest and firstborn, the 

 beloved of his heart," and " jSTabuimsuli-limni, his (Nebuchadnezzar's) brother," are also 

 mentioned. The text exhibits the provincialism, rare in Babylonia, of s for .sA. With this 

 cylinder is also a kind of core, formed partly of bitumen and originally inside it, implying 

 that the object has been in a conflagration, and that some of the bitumen which held the 

 bricks of the building together ran inside. 



A letter from Nabu-abla-iddin to Muranu, his brother, and its sealed clay envelope. 



A very fine contract-tablet recording the lending of some money by a woman named 



Gigitum to Itti-Marduk-balatu, upon the security of a female slave. Dated in the 9th 

 year of Darius. 



A clay tablet recording a loan of three manehs granted by Bel-usezib to Iddin-Bel 

 upon the security of a field. The interest was to be at the rate of one shekel upon every 

 man eh monthly. Dated in the reign of Darius. 



A clay tablet recording a loan granted by Bel-uballit lo Nidinti-Marduk and SelHbi. 

 Dated in the 23rd year of Darius. 



A clay tablet referring apparently to certain bonds held by a woman named TappaSSar, 

 who announces her int ention to sell them. Dated in the 3rd year of Cambyses. 



A clay tablet recording a contract for produce. Dated in the 6th year of Cambyses. 



Pa.t of a clay tablet referring to the sale of a plantation belonging to " the Akkadians 

 who are in Zuhrinu." Dated in the 19th year of Sama§-§um-ukin or Saosduchinos, King 

 of Babylon. 



A small clay tablet referring to the landed property given as dowry by Nabu-sum- 

 iddin to Nergal-uballit with his daughter Tibta. 



A small clay tablet inscribed with a list of woods and cane's in Akkadian and Semitic 

 Babylonian. 



A tablet inscribed with a bilingual list of animals, &c. 



A tablet inscribed with a bilingual list giving parts of a house, &c. 



Part of a small clay tablet with a bilingual list of woods and canes. 



Part of a bilingual list of pots and vessels. 



Several fragments of bilingual lists. 



A small clay tablet inscribed with a series of calculations. 



Part of a tablet referring to certain religious ceremonies. Dated in the 13th year of 

 Darius. 



A baked clay tablet recording a sale of land. Dated in the 35th year of Nebuchad- 

 nezzar. 



[All the above objects are from Babylonia.] 



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