GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 57 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



In the Ephesus Room a capital, part of shaft and architrave 

 of the great Temple of Diana have been restored : in the 

 Archaic Room a capital and part of the shaft of the older 

 Temple of Diana at Ephesus restored, and moulded ; 3 cases in 

 the Ephesus Room and 2 in the adjoining Ante-Room altered 

 and lined with cloth for smaller sculptures or fragments. In 

 the Graeco-Roman Basement, a model of an Etruscan tomb 

 has been erected, and another nearly completed ; the large 

 Halicarnassos mosaic has been taken up from the floor, the 

 end, on which is represented Aphrodite rising from the sear, 

 being mounted on a plinth against the wall. Two statuettes of 

 Aphrodite, casts of the Athene Parthenos and of the charioteer 

 from Delphi have been repaired ; a mosaic on the North- 

 West staircase refaced ; 2 pedestals and 2 plinths altered, a 

 turn-table removed from a statue, and the modern restora- 

 tions from a marble console ; 5 pedestals of variegated 

 marble have been placed in the Galleries ; 2 heads of Apollo, 



1 head of Artemis, a key-stone, and casts of the charioteer 

 from Delphi and of a Lapith's head have been mounted on 

 plinths, 14 sculptures fixed on iron corbels, and 2 slate 

 shelves, G brackets, and 25 pedestals and plinths prepared for 

 sculptures ; 46 pedestals and plinths, 2 statuettes, and 6 

 mosaics have been cleaned. 



Moulds and store-casts have been made of heads of Eros 

 and Cleopatra, 2 heads of Apollo, and lion of the Nereid monu- 

 ment ; store-casts of the Parthenon sculptures and of a lion 

 of the Mausoleum remoulded and repaired. The re-arrange- 

 ment and cataloguing of the moulds and store-casts has been 

 completed, new labels and numbers attached, and a new store- 

 case erected in the masons' workshop. 



Cases 81-87 and 108-115 in the Etruscan Saloon have been 

 re-arranged ; progress has been made in the numbering of 

 the collection of bronzes and in the preparation of labels ; 

 4 drawings of Etruscan tombs have been framed, a gold crown, 

 gold ornaments from Cyprus, 14 gems and rings, 6 bronzes and 



2 vases mounted, the collections of arrow-heads and locks and 

 keys in Case C of the Bronze Room mounted on tablets; 11 

 vases, 6 bronzes, 2 terra-cotta figures, 2 silver objects, and a 

 series of antiquities from Cyprus cleaned and repaired ; 76 

 bronzes catalogued ; 731 objects registered, and 405 descrip- 

 tive titles written and attached to objects. 



The facsimiles of wall paintings in the First and Second 

 Vase Rooms have been repaired, re-fixed, and labelled. 



A publication of " Terracotta Sarcophagi " has been 

 issued ; progress has been made with the Catalogue of Vases 

 (Volume I.) ; Volume II. of the Catalogue of Sculpture set 

 up in type : the Catalogue of Bronzes nearly completed, 



