GREEK AND HOMAN ANTIQUITIES. 61 



Department of Greek and Koman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangeiinent, Cataloguing, etc. 



The re-arrangement of the Graeco-Roman Basement and 

 of the Mausoleum annex has been completed. In the former 

 a second model of an Etruscan tomb has been finished, and 

 two plans of tombs remounted ; a new pair of gates and a 

 barrier have been put up ; a mosaic table has been removed 

 from a marble column, the large Halicarnassos mosaic 

 repaired and repolished, its circular end mounted against the 

 end wall, a frieze repaired, two reliefs and a tablet with masks 

 mounted on the wall. The bull's head capital from Cyprus 

 has been transferred from the Graeco-Roman Basement to 

 the Ephesus Room, restored, and mounted on a new plinth, 

 and a figure of Athena from Gyrene has also been placed 

 in the Ephesus Room ; the lacunaria from the Theseion have 

 been mounted in the Elgin Room, slabs 40 and 42 of the 

 south frieze of the Parthenon transposed and remounted, an.d 

 a fragment from the north-west corner moved to slab 9 on the 

 west side. 



A new model of the Acropolis of Athens has been provided 

 and placed in the Elgin Room, and the model of the Parthenon 

 has been cleaned and repaired and placed on a table in the 

 centre ; the " Spinario " has been mounted on a marble 

 pedestal, with turn-table, and the Strangford shield on a 

 marble stand with brass pivot ; a group from the chariot- 

 frieze of the Mausoleum has been remoulded, restored in 

 plaster, and mounted on the wall of the room, a reclining 

 figure, a fragment of a stele, and seven heads mounted 

 on plinths, and two plinths repaired and altered. The 

 restorations have been removed from the plinth of the 

 Westmacott athlete, two pedestals altered, and plaster 

 borders made for five mosaics ; 15 plinths have been cleaned : 

 17 stone plinths, four marble pedestals, one marble riser, 

 eight slate shelves, and 31 iron brackets have been prepared 

 for sculptures. 



Moulds and store-casts have been made of an Ionic base 

 in the Elgin Room, and a candelabrum in the Hall of 

 Inscriptions ; also of parts of the Nereid monument, the 

 Parthenon frieze, and the Nike of the Parthenon pediment. 



In the First Vase Room, wall-cases 33 and 34 have been 

 re- lined, and the vases re-mounted and re-arranged, two new 

 cases have been placed on the east side of the room, and 

 fitted up to receive the antiquities excavated at Enkomi, in 

 Cyprus ; those from Amathus and Curium, in Cyprus, have 

 been partly incorporated in the general collections. In the 

 Etruscan Saloon, cases 19-25 have been altered and re-fitted ; 

 the wall-cases on either side of the Medal Room door have 

 been re-arranged ; and a series of terracottas from Civita 

 Liavinia, in cases 26-35, has been repaired and mounted. 



