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



Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, d'c. 

 Egyptian Division : — 



The mummies, mummy-cases and coffins have been re-arranged in the room formerly 

 occupied by Etruscan antiquities, and the general re-arrangement of the other parts 

 of the Egyptian Collection has been proceeded with. 



The large sculptures presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund have been fixed in 

 position and mounted upon granite and other plinths. 



The large granite column has been repaired, fifteen figures have been mounted on 

 stone plinths, and twenty stone objects have been repaired. 



Two hundred and thirty objects have been mounted on plinths. Eighteen wooden 

 stands, and three thousand cloth-covered mounts have been made. New shelves have 

 been fitted up to hold papyri. 



Six hundred objects have been numbered, twenty -nine ostraka have been placed in 

 boxes, one hundred and five objects have been repaired, and the verification of regis- 

 tration numbers has been proceeded with. One hundred and forty-six labels have 

 been written and painted and attached to objects. Two thousand six hundred and 

 thirty-six numbers have been printed and attached to objects. 



. Six hundred and thirty Egyptian objects have been registered ; the case-book of 

 Egyptian papyri has been continued ; two papyri have been unrolled, four papyri 

 have been mounted ; a collection of scarabs has been catalogued. Descriptive labels 

 for the plates of the fac-simile of the papyrus of Ani have been written and printed ; 

 the introduction to this fac-simile has been completed. 



Eight Cufic gravestones have been mounted. 



Assyrian Division : — 



Cases and drawers have been altered in the Students' Room, and two bays fitted 

 with drawers. Twelve seal-cylinders, with casts, have been mounted. One inscription 

 has been mounted on a plinth. Two hundred and seventy-three fragments of tablets 

 have been joined. Six hundred and eighty tablets have been repaired, and one 

 hvmdred and nineteen have been cleaned. The contents of nineteen table-cases have 

 been entered in a case-book, for which an index has also been written. Thirteen 

 thousand fragments of the Kouyunjik and other collections of tablets have been 

 placed in boxes. Fourteen hundred and forty-eight tablets have been registered. 

 One thousand one hundred and four objects have been given out to students. 



The second edition of Volume IV. of the " Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia" 

 has been proceeded with ; the Kouyunjik and other collections have been examined 

 for duplicates ; additional texts have been copied, and notes, list of contents, and 

 introduction have been written. The collection of tablets from Tell el-Amarna has 

 been transcribed into ordinary Babylonian characters, transliterated into Roman 

 characters and partly translated ; five proof-sheets of the text have been corrected, 

 and a glossary for fifty-five of the tablets has been made. The Assyrian section of 

 the General Guide to the British Museum has been re-written. 



Eight hundred and eighty-nine visits have been made to the Egyptian and Assyrian 

 Department by students and others who have been assisted in their researches. 



The antiquities have been explained to parties of students. 



II. — Acquisitions. — Purchases. 



I. — 1. Thirteen limestone busts of Roman Governors and' their families from 

 Palmyra. They were probably made in the second century, a.d. 



2. Stele, with raised figure of a warrior, and four lines of Palmyrene inscription, 

 recording his name and titles, B.C. 100. 



II. — 1. A papyrus, inscribed with a hieroglyphic copy of the Book of the Dead, 

 measuring 65 feet by 14 inches, written for an officer called Nu, about B.C. 300. 

 The text is of value on account of the M^ay in which the words are spelled. 



III. — 1. A Himyaritic name-stamp. 



2. Pair of Phoenician silver bracelets from Tyre. 



IV.— 1. A set 



