70 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 

 The Sculpture Galleries. — The re-arrangement of the Mauso- 

 leum Room has been continued ; three of the marble lions, the 

 panther, and the ram have been re-mounted ; smaller sculpture 

 fragments have been arranged on shelves ; architectural frag- 

 ments from Lycia have been restored and exhibited ; and all 

 the sculptures have been covered up during the redecoration of 

 the Room. In the Mausoleum Room Annexe fragments of 

 Roman sarcophagi have been mounted and arranged. 



In the Phigaleian Room, the slabs from the frieze of the 

 Temple of Nike Apteros were taken down and combined in 

 correct order with casts of the slabs still at Athens ; the frieze 

 was then replaced on the wall. Two casts of newly discovered 

 fragments of the Phigaleian frieze have been fixed in position ; 

 and a stone plinth has been provided for the stele of 

 Archagora. 



The inscription recording the report of the Erechtheion 

 commissioners has been set up in the Elgin Room near the 

 fragments of the Erechtheion ; a relief was mounted in the 

 Third Graeco-Roman Room, a mosaic and several reliefs were 

 fixed in the Graeco-Roman Basement. 



A re-arrangement of the Cast Gallery has been made and the 

 new acquisitions placed on exhibition. The unexhibited casts of 

 the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum have been unpacked and 

 stored. 



The Vase Rooms and Upper Galleries. — In the First Vase 

 Room a Cretan bath-tub has been mounted and a series of 

 reproductions of Minoan objects have been exhibited. The 

 arrangement of the unexhibited section of the Collections has 

 been continued, registered vases and terra-cottas having been 

 brought up from basement cupboards and distributed between 

 the various rooms. The unexhibited lamps have been arranged in 

 the Fourth Vase Room and a re-arrangement of the same room is 

 in progress, a new standard case having been placed in position. 



In the Bronze Room, the head of Hypnos has been mounted 

 on a cast of the torso of the Madrid statue. A number of 

 transferred or unexhibited pieces have been arranged or 

 incorporated. 



The publication of Vol. 1., Part II., of the Catalogue of 

 Vases was completed. Progress was made with Part I. of the 

 same volume ; the new acquisitions of early fabrics were 

 included and the sectional introductions written to the close of 

 the Mycenaean period. The preparation of Vol. V. of the 

 same Catalogue was continued, the black and red figure sections 

 being revised in manuscript. The Catalogue of Lamps was 

 corrected in proof ; progress was made with the second part of 

 Volume IV. of the Greek Inscriptions. The revised Fourth 



