DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 57 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



1. The Sculpture Galleries. — During the early months of tlie 

 year the remaining storecasts and casts, which had formed a 

 part of the Temporary War Time Exhibition, were returned to 

 their proper places, and all traces of war-time conditions were 

 thus effaced from the Galleries. 



In May a rearrangement of the Ephesus Room was under- 

 taken. The sculptures of the older Temple of Ephesus were 

 concentrated in the middle of the East side of the room and 

 delimited by the provision of wooden screens. The corners of 

 the room were cleared by the removal of the Dionysos of 

 Thrasyllos and the Cypriote bull-headed capital to the 

 Mausoleum Room. In the vacant north-east corner a series of 

 Greek portrait busts was arranged. In the opposite south-east 

 angle was installed a series illustrative of the schools of sculpture 

 of the 4th century B.C., including the Towneley Venus, the 

 Nicocleia statue and seA^eral busts from the Third Graeco-Roman 

 Room. 



A rearrangement of the Second Graeco-Roman Room was 

 undertaken with the object of forming a similar series of the 

 sculpture types of the 5th century b.c. The Yaison Diadu- 

 menos was brought from the First Grseco-Roman Room to fill 

 the alcove formerly occupied by the Towneley Venus; the West- 

 macott athlete and other pieces were transferred from the Third 

 Grseco-Roman Room. 



In the First Grseco-Roman Room the large altar of Calpur- 

 nius from Ephesus and the colossal bust of Faustina from Sardis 

 have been placed on exhibition. In the Third Graeco-Roman 

 Room minor adjustments have been made, necessitated by the 

 rearrangement elsewhere. In the Elgin Room, three newly 

 acquired casts of fragments have been inserted into the Frieze 

 of the Parthenon. In the Hall of Inscriptions and the Gallery 

 of Roman portraits, all sculptures were covered up during the 

 repainting of the rooms and afterwards replaced on exhibition. 

 The contents of the Gallery of Casts and the Carthaginian base- 

 ment and the mosaics on the north-west staircase have also been 

 cleaned. 



Eighteen pieces of sculpture or fragments have been repaired 

 and fifty-nine mounted ; eighteen inscriptions have been mounted 

 and eighty-three plinths and pedestals cleaned and repolished. 

 Six sculptures at the Natural History Museum have been cleaned. 



Moulds have been made of two slabs and a fragment of the 

 Frieze of the Parthenon, and of three slabs of the Frieze of the 

 Mausoleum. Six busts have been restored in plaster. The store 

 casts of the Harpy Tomb and of the Frieze of the Parthenon have 

 been repaired. 



2. The Upper Galleries. — In preparation for structural 

 work on the roof, the First and Second Vase Rooms have been 

 completely cleared and the vases placed in storage in the other 



