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ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



have been arranged in order on the trays in the table-cases in the Kouyunjik Gallery, 

 rendered vacant by the removal of the Iv. (Kouyunjik) Collection; the 81-2-4 and S. 

 (Spartali) collections, together with a part .of the 76-11-17 collection, have also been 

 arranired in order : a portion of the engraved cylinder-seals and gems, with the plaster 

 impressions, have been transferred to the Assyrian Room to a better light ; and some of 

 the tablets with Aramaean dockets have been exhibited in Table-case A. in the Kouyunjik 

 Gallery. 



A Himvaritic inscription has been repaired and mounted in plinths. One Phoenician 

 inscription has been mounted. 



Correspondents have been answered. Collections offered for sale have been examined, 

 and selections made. Paper impressions from inscriptions, and upwards of one hundred 

 and thirty squeezes of Himyaritic and other inscriptions have been taken. 



1,148 visits have been made to the Egyptian and Assyrian Department by students 

 and others, all ot whom have been desisted in their researches. 



Of the acquisitions, the following are the most noteworthy : — 



Egyptian ; 



A green glazed porcelain scarabceus, with gold band and joining. Parts of the face of 

 it are covered with gold leaf, and at the back are fragments of cloth from the mummy of 

 Thothmes III. A gold chain and bronze collar from the same royal mummy. 



A solid wooden box with four human-headed hawks wearing disks, and jackal on the 

 top. A wooden box in the shape of two horses ; a Basalt seated statue of a personage of 

 the 26tli Dynasty ; a bronze mirror with wooden handle ; a wooden carding comb for flax • 

 a wooden hoe with original cord ; ii diorite saucer ; a wooden and ivory Kohl-box with 

 four holes ; a wooden cynoceplialus. A blue porcelain figure of Pi-netem, King of Egypt, 

 B.C. 1040. An ivory comb; a wooden box for scales, with spaces for weights; a wooden 

 tie inscribed with name of Thothmes III. A bronze figure of god Set, with silver eyes 

 and gilt face; an ivory pomegranate; two ivory boxes; three glass bracelets ; an iron 

 strigil ; a bronze human-headed scorpion ; two flat knives; an ivory collar, with a proces- 

 sion of mythological figures ; twenty blue porcelain " Ushebti " figures ; a wooden coffin 

 containing wooden " Ushebti " figures ; a dioi-ite bowl ; eight pieces of bead work ; a glass 

 Kufic weight ; a wooden pillow. 



1,280 ostraka in hieroglyphics, hieratic, demotic, Greek, and Coptic characters. 



Ten necklaces of glass, porcelain, amethyst, and carnelian beads. Strings of hard stone 

 and Roniiin glass beads; " Ushebti " figure of PsanLnetichus ; scarabaeus of Sheshank II. 

 Wooden frame of couch or small bed, the legs terminating in bull's feet; wooden model 

 of man rolling dough; iron arrow-head collection of textile fabrics from Ahmin; wooden 

 implement for fulling cloth ; wooden lion ; outline head of Kameses II. on hard sandstone ; 

 four bronze knives ; three iron spears ; iron chisel ; terra cotta heads of Hathor and of 

 Aphrodite ; model of altar in black steatite ; green porcelain hedgehog. 



Twelve inscribed tablets of various periods, the largest being portion of a long Greek 

 inscription of the time of Ptolemy Philometor, B.C. 181. 



Sixteen tombstones with Arabic inscriptions in Kufic character. 



Collection of forty-one Himyaritic inscriptions from South Arabia. 



Assyrian : — 



A crystal cylinder, engraved with a design representing a male figure about to slay a 

 Hon. 



A cylinder of reddish stone, engraved with a design representing a male figure about to 

 slay a bull; and several emblems — the winged disc "scorpion-man,"; &c. 



A small contract-tablet, dated in the 61st year of Cyrus ( ? ), from Babylon. 



A contract-tablet referring to the revenues of the temple of the Sun-God, at Sippara. 

 Dated in the 12th year of Darius. 



A very fine tablet inscribed with the contract of the sale of a field. Dated in the 7th 

 year of Nabopolassar. 



A small contract-tablet referring to fruit, dated in the 20th year of Nebuchadnezzar. 



A small tablet referring to right of way. Dated in the 1st year of Nabonldus. 



A contract-tablet, dated in the 5th year of Darius. 



A small tablet inscribed with a letter from Musezib-Marduk to Samas-aha-usur, his 

 brother. ' 



A tablet bearing a plan of a field, with statements of the boundaries and measure- 

 ments. 



T'7-esents. 



Cast of the " Stele de Teima," with a Phoenician inscription, 3 feet 7 inches x 1 foot 

 4^ inches. Taken from the original monument in the Musee du Louvre. Presented by 

 J\J. Leon Heuzey, Conservattur des Antiquites Orientates. 



One Pehlevi Seal ; two agate cylinders ; one haematite sheep ; two haematite seal- 

 cylmders. Presented by Major C. H. Durand, C.B. 



Two Pehlevi gems. Presented by John Evans, Esq. 



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