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Registration numbers The most common type of Museum number begins with the year of acquisition. The database standardises these numbers in the form, for example: 1887,0708.2427 (year: comma: block of four numbers - usually representing a month and day: full-stop and final number). In some of these cases a prefix has been added before a number (e.g. If the number you are entering has come from an old catalogue it could appear in the form 1887-7-8-2427. In the case of some two-dimensional works from Asia and the Middle East a full stop may need to be inserted into the final number. The second most common type of Museum number takes the form of one or two letters followed by two numbers. There are also some special cases including, for example, S.2534 (Sheepshanks collection, in which case the number will fall between 1 and 8000). BM or 'Big' numbers These are used in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan and the Department of the Middle East and are just a sequence of numbers.

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