GREEK AKI) ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 53 



V. — 1. Large glazed and painted terra-cotta ornament 

 from the palace of Assur-nasir-pal ; about B.C. 

 885. 



2. Glazed and painted terra-cotta ornament unin- 



scribed. 



3. Inscribed fragments of glazed and painted terra- 



cotta ornaments. 



Presented by the Right Hon. Sir A. H. Layard, 



G.C.B. 



E. Matmde Thompson. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Nineteen sculptures and a series of inscriptions have been 

 repaired and mounted, a series of fragments of a terra-cotta 

 cornice repaired and mounted on slate, and five marble 

 pedestals for sculptures placed in the Galleries ; four marble 

 corbels for portrait heads or busts fixed in the Entrance Hall ; 

 casts of two fragments added to the torso of Poseidon from 

 the west pediment of the Parthenon ; one cast of a fragment 

 added to a slab of the Parthenon frieze, and the store-cast of 

 the same slab restored ; a coff'er of the ceiling of the Nereid 

 Monument restored ; the walls of the First and Third Grseco- 

 Roman Galleries repainted ; a series of the most important 

 Greek and Latin inscriptions, together with a number of 

 Greek and Roman portraits and other sculptures, have been 

 placed in the new Inscription Room between the Entrance 

 Hall and the Reading Room ; the Greek inscriptions from 

 Knidos, and a series of mosaics from Carthage, have been 

 removed, so as to release the Store Room where they were 

 placed ; two Lycian tombs have been transferred to the 

 Mausoleum Room ; progress has been made with the re-arrange- 

 ment of the GrsBCO-Roman Galleries and the Mausoleum 

 Room ; the Knidos lion has been transferred from the Elgin 

 Room to the Mausoleum Room ; the Grseco-Roman Basement 

 has been partly repainted, and the sculptures re-arranged ; 

 two sarcophagi have been removed from the Roman Gallery to 

 the Mausoleum Annexe ; progress has been made in re-mounting 

 and re-arranging the collections in the Bronze Room and Second 

 Vase Room ; a selection of casts from gems has been made, and 

 two cases prepared for presentation sets of the same ; seventy- 

 four gems have been mounted in silver-gilt mounts, and one 

 on a velvet-covered block ; fifty-four leaden tablets have been 

 mounted on slabs of slate, and four gold laminae on wooden 

 tablets ; two terra-cotta figures and thirty-six bronzes have 

 been mounted on stands or plinths, and one on its own base ; 



0.108. D 3 seven 



