GREEK AND KOMAN ANTIQUITIES. 56 



Department OF Greek and Roman Antiqiiities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



The re-arrangement of the Ephesus Room has been con- 

 tinued ; progress has been made in restoring a capital and 

 column from the later temple of Artemis and in preparing 

 stands, fittings and labels for the plaster moulds and store- 

 casts in the basement. 



Twenty-eight sculptures have been mounted on plinths or 

 repaired ; an iron dowel has been removed from the drum 

 of a column of the Propylsea ; 170 pedestals and plinths, 

 a head of Perseus, a mosaic in the Etruscan Saloon, 8 slabs 

 of the Phigaleian frieze, the cast of the Hermes of Praxiteles^ 

 and 9 store-casts of the Parthenon frieze have been cleaned 

 or repaired ; new moulds have been made from 10 slabs of the 

 Phigaleian frieze, from a group in the West pediment of the 

 Parthenon, from a head of Apollo in the Mausoleum Room, 

 from pieces of architecture and sculpture from Ephesus, and 

 from five objects in terra-cotta. 



The terra-cotta sarcophagus from Clazomense, with cover, 

 has been repaired and mounted in two glass cases in the First 

 Vase Room ; it has also been drawn and photographed for 

 publication. The collection of vases in this room has been> 

 partially re-arranged, the other sarcophagi from Clazomense and 

 Cameiros having been transferred to a wall-case on the West 

 side of the room, and the collection of vases from Rhodes and 

 Naucratis re- arranged in the adjoining wall-cases and in 

 table-case D ; and the two large pithoi from Cameiros and 

 lalysos having been placed on tops of cases in the 

 Terra-cotta Room. 



The collection of ornaments in gold and ivory from 

 Enkomi, in Cyprus, has been arranged in the Gold Ornament 

 Room, and the collection of silver ornaments in the Vestibule;, 

 table-case D in the Bronze Room has been re-arranged, and 

 the contents mounted on tablets ; two cases in the Third 

 Vase Room and two in the Fourth Vase Room have been 

 re-glazed and fitted with new locks, and raised on plinths ; 

 a series of labels has been made for the Vase Rooms and for 

 the Mosaics on the North-West Staircase, and a mahogany 

 case provided for the Catalogues kept in the Vase Rooms ; 

 the copies of Etruscan paintings on the walls of the Vase 

 Rooms have been taken down and cleaned; and the walls 

 and ceilings of the Third Grseco-Roman Room, Grseco-Roman 

 Basement, Bronze Room, and Etruscan Saloon have been 

 repainted and decorated. 



Fourteen vases, 3 bronzes, and a series of objects from 

 Cyprus have been cleaned and repaired ; 3 bronzes, 2 vases^, 

 and a series of gold ornaments have been mounted t)n plinths 



