amongst my notes, although I cannot give the reference, the title ur xna en mut, which proves that xna, is Ο not a pallakis, as they were obviously not required for a goddess. The next memorandum is that placed on the shabti, or sepulchral figure No. 8704 of the British Museum, suten än Nehi, "the royal scribe Nehi," which is made of arragonite or alabaster, with the usual chapter 6 of the Ritual incised round the dress. This inscription is traced in black ink in a vertical line on the right side of the figure, and records the number of figures made in two months :— Recording that the artists had made 24 figures in the course of two months, or 60 days. The term pert is of course the winter season, but as the year was vague it is not possible to determine its relative place in the absence of any indication to its position in the present calendar. The figure is about the period of the twentieth dynasty, B.C. 1000–900. The Anniversary Meeting of the Society will be held at 9, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, W., on Tuesday, January 13th, 1885, when the Council and Officers of the Society will be elected, and the usual business of the Anniversary Meeting transacted. THEO. G. PINCHES will read some remarks on the Babylonian Kings of the Mythical Period. Third Meeting, 13th January, 1885. SAMUEL BIRCH, D.C.L., LL.D., &c., PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following Presents were announced, and thanks ordered to be returned to the Donors :— From the Royal Geographical Society:- Proceedings, and December, 1884. Vol. VII. No. 1. January, 1885. From the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries :—Aarboger. 3rd Part. 1884. 8vo. Copenhagen. From the Editor :-The American Journal of Philology. Edited by Basil L. Gildersleeve. Vol. V, 3. Whole No. 19. October, 1884. 8vo. Baltimore. From the Editor, Rev. S. D. Peet :-The American Antiquarian. Vol. VI. No. 6. November, 1884. 8vo. Chicago. From A. Cope-Whitehouse :-The School of Mines Quarterly. Vol. VI. No. 1. November, 1884. Svo. New York. Contains an article on Lake Moeris, by Mr. Whitehouse. From the Corporation of the City of London :-Analytical Index to the Remembrancia. A.D. 1579-1664. 8vo. London. 1878. From the Corporation of the City of London :-Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. 8vo. 1859. And Supplements 9th to 15th. 1869-1879. 1876. From the Corporation of the City of London :-Catalogue of a part of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. 8vo. 1876. Supplement. 1877-1881. 8vo. 1882. From the Corporation of the City of London:-Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, Engravings, and other works of art belonging to the Corporation of the City of London. 2 parts. 8vo. 1867 and 1868. From the Author :-Die ägyptischen Denkmäler des ProvinzialMuseums zu Bonn und des Museum Wallraff-Richartz zu Köln. Von Dr. Wiedemann. 8vo. Bonn. 1884. Separat-abdruck aus den Jahrbuch d. Vereins von Altherthumsfreunden in Rheine. Heft LXXVIII. From the Author :-La Déesse Ištar, surtout dans le mythe Babylonien. Par C. P. Tiele. 8vo. Leide. 1884. Tiré du Vol. II des Travaux de la 6me Session du Congrès international des Orientalistes à Leide. From the Author:-Nouvelles Inscriptions Nabatéennes de Medaîn Salih. Par M. Philippe Berger. 4to. Paris. 1884. From the Author :-Siegfried Langers Reiseberichte aus Syrien und Arabien. By Dr. W. Müller. 8vo. Vienna. 1883. From the Author :-Zur vergleichendenden Semitischen Sprachforschung. Zwei vorträge gehalten auf dem sechsten internationalen Orientalisten - Congres in Leiden. Von David Heinrich Müller. 8vo. Leiden. 1884. Tiré du Vol. II des Travaux de la 6me Session du Congrès international des Orientalistes à Leide. From the Author :-On the Dispersion of Egyptian Antiquities. By Amelia B. Edwards. From the Author :-On a fragment of a mummy case, containing a part of a Royal Cartouche. By Amelia B. Edwards. Tiré du Vol. II des Travaux de la 6me Session du Congrès international des Orientalistes à Leide. From W. Harry Rylands (Secretary) :-Grammaire Égyptienne, ou principes généraux de l'écriture sacrée égyptienne appliquée à la répresentation de la langue parlée. Par M. Champollion le jeune. Publiée sur la manuscrit autographe, par l'ordre de M. Guizot. Folio. Paris. 1836. From W. Harry Rylands (Secretary):-The unedited Antiquities of Attica; comprising the Architectural Remains of Eleusis, Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus. By the Society of Dilettanti. Second edition. Folio. 1833. The following were elected Members of the Society, having been nominated on December 2nd: Rev. Maxwell H. Close, 40, Lower Baggot Street, Dublin. Rev. Walter John Edmonds, B.D., Vicar of Highbury, South Molton, Devon. Rev. Thomas Graham, D.D., President of St. Mary's Training College, Hammersmith, S. W. Rev. Benjamin Waugh, 56, Ludgate Hill, Editor of the Sunday Magazine. To be added to the List of Subscribers : Andover Theological Seminary (Rev. W. L. Ropes, Librarian), Andover, Mass., U.S.A. Manchester Grammar School (S. Dill, Head Master). The following were nominated for election at the next Meeting on February 3rd, 1885 :— Miss Sophia Foster, 17, Bateman Street, Cambridge. Rev. William Page, B.A., The Manse, Upper Mall, Hammersmith. Rev. William Kingdon Rowe, 8, Streatham Place, Brixton Hill, S.W. Miss Williams, 3, Hillgrove Road, South Hampstead. To be added to the List of Subscribers : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, New York, U.S.A. The following were elected Honorary Members of the Society: Professor J. Lieblein, Christiania. Dr. A. Wiedemann, Bonn. SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1884. FROM time to time during the past year it has been an unfortunate duty to register the loss of many valued Members of the Society. Notices have been recorded in the Proceedings, but we cannot but look back with extreme regret now at the close of the year, when we review the names of the well-known scholars and kind friends who have passed away. It is needless here, as it would perhaps be out of place, to enter into any memoir of their lives, or the works by which they are known. Of some of them this can be acquired easily, as their loss is not ours alone, but that of the civilized world. The number of Members on the Roll was announced in the Report for the year 1883, read at the Anniversary Meeting held 8th January, 1884, as being 662. The flow of candidates for election continues in a most satisfactory manner, replacing the regretted losses by death and other From the following figures it will be observed that the strength of the Society has increased; and as the interest in the subjects embraced by the Society steadily increases, it may be anticipated that the number of members will certainly be enlarged. causes. In the communications submitted to the Society in the form of both papers and letters printed in the Proceedings, the language and antiquities of ancient Babylonia and Assyria naturally form a large portion. The mounds scattered about the plains of Mesopotamia have yielded many valuable records. Time and care only is able to make them available to students, but some of more than ordinary value have appeared during the past year in the publications of the Society, and attention may be well called to them now. Mr. Theo. G. Pinches and Mr. E. A. Wallis Budge, in a paper of which they are the joint authors, translated and commented upon an Edict of Nebuchadnezzar I, circa B.C. 1150, engraved upon a stone discovered by Mr. Rassam at Abû-habbah. It was printed in full with the cuneiform text in the Proceedings for April. Again, the |