72 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



The Sculpture Galleries. — The remounting of the central 

 group from the West Pediment of the Parthenon, designed and 

 begun last year, has been completed ; the torsos have been 

 raised to their proper heights, in relation to the ba«e line, on 

 shafts of Istrian marble, the poses of the fragments have been 

 restudied and corrected, and the figures are set on pivots so 

 that they can be turned about their vertical axes. The figure 

 hitherto known as Victory has been transferred from the East 

 Pediment to its original place in this group. A colossal head 

 of Athena, which is thought to represent a Pheidian type, has 

 been moved from the Grseco-Roman Gallery to a place in the 

 Elgin Room. 



In the Mausoleum Room Annexe steel stands have been 

 fixed, on which a considerable number of the minor Greek and 

 Roman reliefs are exhibited in a fair light. Examples of the 

 Roman reliefs have been fixed on the walls of the Roman 

 Gallery. A reconstruction of the order of the Nereid Monument 

 is in progress. 



The Vase Rooms and Upper Galleries. — The general 

 rearrangement of the collection of vases has been continued. 

 Cases in the First and Second Rooms have been refitted and 

 repainted or recovered, and the kylikes in two table-cases in 

 the Second Room have been remounted. In the Third Room 

 the wall-cases have been refitted and the vases contained in 

 them have been rearranged so as to give a better chronological 

 sequence ; the kylikes have also been rearranged, the finest 

 being set up in standard cases so that both sides may be seen, 

 and the rest mounted in the table-cases with mirrors to reflect 

 the interior designs, which were previously concealed. Glass- 

 topped drawers have been fitted in these galleries and in the 

 Bronze Room and the Room of Greek and Roman Life for the 

 exhibition of fragments of pottery, fibulae, weights, and similar 

 small objects. Broken panes of glass in the skylights and cases 

 have been replaced, and the skylights have been cleaned. A 

 rearrangement of the unexhibited antiquities is in progress. 

 The central case of gems in the Gold Ornament Room has 

 been raised to a more convenient height. 



The publication of the Sculptures of the Parthenon, photo- 

 gravure plates and text in folio, was completed. The Catalogue 

 of Jewellery was printed and revised in proof. The Minoan, 

 Mycenaean, and Cypriote sections of the first volume of the 

 Catalogue of Vases were set up in type, and the manuscript of 

 most of the remainder was prepared for press. Progress was 

 made with the gecon4 part of Volunie IV, of the Greek 

 Inscriptions. 



