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Cases in the Stiulents' Eoom have been fitted wllli trays to hold the newly arranged 

 collections. 



AVainscot linings and brass fittings have beeTi fixed to cases in the Assyrian Basement. 



An'index to the Registers has been made. 



A list of the exhibited objects has been begun, showing their exact position in the 

 galleries. 



Tlie table-cases in the Kouyunjik Gallery have been cleared and re-arranged. 



The revision of Vol. IV. of the Cuneiform Ir.scriptious of Western Asia has been 

 continued ; 19 plates have been revised and corrected, and several of the proofs have 

 been corrected, this work involving the copying of several new texts, and the examination 

 of more than 4,000 tablets of the K. Collection for the purpc^se of discovering duplicate 

 texts. 



The Assyrian tablets from Tell el-Amarna, 81 in number, have been copied with a 

 view to publication. 



Twenty-three Himyaritic inscriptions have been registered. 



The collections have been sevei'al times described and explained to classes and parties of 

 students. 1,273 visits have been made to the Egyptian and Assyrian Department by 

 students and others who have been assisted, when rer^uired, in their researches. 



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



T'urchases. 

 Egyptian : 



A hieroglyphic papyrus measuring 87 feet, written for a royal scribe called An-i, 

 together with the wooden Osiris figure in which the paj'yrus was originally placed. 



A hieroglyphic papyrus written for a military scribe, called Nes necht about B.C. 

 1000, and measuring 51 feet by 14 inches. Both pajjyri contain unique and interesting 

 vignettes. 



A mummy with bead-work complete, in its coffin, from Ekhmim, being the second 

 mummy from Ekhmim in the Museum. 



A mummy in a case of cartonnage, with original lacinu. 



A set of large blue glazed porcelain jars, one of them inscribed. A pair of ivory hands 

 and arms from a royal munnny at Thebes. An ivory upright figure of a woman carrying 

 a ball upon her head. The ivory handle of a fan with head of the goddess Athor. Case 

 for the mummy of a Cynocephalus. Bronze pendant and knife from mummy of Ameno- 

 phis III. Twenty-two bilingual Greek and Demotic tesserre. A table stand for offerings. 

 A scaraboeus of lapis lazuli inscribed with the name of Queen Amenartas. Three pieces 

 of basalt inscribed with battle and hunting scenes. Wooden figures of lion and the god 

 Bes. 



Two flax combs. A box containing four glass bottles. Twenty-five jars from a 

 mummifier's shop at Aswan. 



A painted, leather roll. 



Assyrian : — 



A collection of one hundred and twenty-seven tablets, including contracts and other 

 texts of the reign of Nabopolassiir, Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, Darius, and Antigonus, 

 besides other interesting documents. 



Seven hundred Babylonian case-tablets and others, dating from about B.C. 2500 to 

 the time of Darius. 



A collection of eighty-one cuneiform tablets from Tell cl-Amarna on the Nile, con- 

 sisting principally of letters to the Kings of Egypt, Amenophis III. and Amenophis 

 IV., from foreign monarchs and officials. The date of these tablets must, therefore, be 

 placed in the sixteenth century before Chi-ist. 



A stone w^eight with a trilingual inscription in Persian and Babylonian and Median. 



Ten fragments of Babylonian historical cylinders. A porcelain figure of an animal. 



Presents. 



Oval agate gem inscribed with head of a king and legend. Presented by Lieut-Colonel 

 S. Mockler. 



Nine Babylonian contract-tablets. Presented by Dr. H. Martyn Sutton. 



Thirty-one Greek, Coptic, and Demotic Ostraka. Presented by the Rev. Chauncey 

 Mnrch. 



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