54 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, <Ssc. 



Twenty sculptures and sixteen inscriptions have been 

 repaired and mounted, and new marble pedestals for the 

 west pediment of the Parthenon completed ; the casts of 

 sculptures in the Elgin Room, and the model of the Par- 

 thenon, have been cleaned and repaired, and the walls of the 

 Elgin Room repainted ; the re-arrangement of the Archaic 

 Room has been completed, the casts of the pedimental sculp- 

 tures from ^gina having been cleaned, and the restored 

 pediments erected in that room ; three casts of Metopes have 

 been fixed on corbels ; the sculptures of the Nereid monument 

 have been moved from the Lycian Room to the former 

 Phigaleian Room, where their repair, re-arrangement, and re- 

 erection has been completed ; the arrangement of a new 

 room of inscriptions beside the Entrance Hall has been 

 begun ; fifty-five vases have been cleaned and repaired ; 

 forty-six gems, one coin, and one fragment of terra-cotta 

 have been moulded ; forty-two lead scrolls have been un- 

 rolled and cleaned ; seven lead scrolls, and one bronze disk, 

 have been mounted ; a case for portfolios of drawings has 

 been made in the Elgin Room ; nineteen gems have been 

 mounted in silver-gilt settings, and ninety-two gems from the 

 Carlisle Collection have been mounted on velvet ; cupboards 

 have been prepared in a basement-room to hold duplicate 

 specimens ; a table has been made for the model of the Nereid 

 Monument ; progress has been made in remounting and re- 

 arranging the Collection in the First and Fourth Vase 

 Rooms; three hundred and forty-six objects have been 

 registered ; four hundred and eighty-six catalogued ; and 

 three hundred and fifty descriptive titles written and attached 

 to objects ; descriptive titles have also been written on the 

 doors of the diff'erent rooms. 



Section II., Part III., of the " Ancient Greek Inscriptions 

 in the British Museum," and a new edition of the General 

 Guide have been issued. Progress has been made with a 

 Hand-book to, and a Catalogue of, the Vases, and a Catalogue 

 of Sculpture. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 By Donation, 

 I. 1. Five vases of lychnites. 



2. Three vases of terracotta, made by hand, 

 1. 2. From prim^itive tombs in Antiparos. 

 Presented by J. Theodore Bent, Esq. 



