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Department of Greek and Eoman Antiquities. 



I. — A rrangement. 



The Sculpture Galleries. — The re-decoration and re-arrange- 

 ment of the Mausoleum Room has been completed ; the 

 sculptures have been cleaned and uncovered, and a collection 

 of architectural fragments from various sites has been arranged 

 in one of the bays. Sixteen capitals, a torso and four coffers 

 were mounted and set in position. In the Mausoleum Annexe, 

 a large sarcophagus was repaired and mounted. 



In the Ephesus Room two large fragments were fitted 

 together and shown to belong to the restored capital of the 

 Oroesus Temple ; the capital has been removed and a new 

 restoration to include the new fragments, is in progress. In 

 the Ante-Room the pedestal of the Demeter of Cnidus has been 

 made 9 inches lower. 



A re-arrangement of the Graeco-Roman Basement has been 

 carried out ; 25 Etruscan sarcophagi have been brought from 

 the Annexe and mounted on steel shelves. 



Two portions of a mosaic floor from Carthage have been 

 re-united on the N.W. staircase. Twelve busts from the base- 

 ment have been placed on pedestals in the new Large Room 

 (Department of Printed Books). 



The Upper Galleries. — In the First Vase Room recent 

 accessions of Neolithic Thessalian sherds have been arranged in 

 •drawers ; the C^ycladic and Italic sections have been re-arranged ; 

 and a further series of electrotypes of Minoan and Mycenaean 

 ■objects has been placed on exhibition. A re-arrangement of 

 Corinthian va=es was carried out in the Second Room and a 

 table-case fitted with drawers. The new standard case in the 

 Fourth Room was filled and the exhibition of late Italic wares 

 modified in consequence. Throughout the Vase Rooms the 

 vases and cases have been cleaned. 



In the Bronze Room the head of Augustus from Meroe has 

 been mounted on a marble plinth and a chronological arrange- 

 ment of fibulse in drawers has been undertaken. The sections 

 on Religion and Toilet in the Exhibition of Ancient Life v/ere 

 re-arranged. The cases in the Terracotta Room have been 

 repapered and repainted, the mounts of the terracottas have 

 been repainted, and the terracottas have been replaced. 



For the Catalogue of Lamps the proofs were corrected in 

 page and the illustrations were completed. New acquisitions 

 were incorporated into Vol. I. of the Catalogue of Vases and 

 the manuscript was completed to the end of the Geometric 

 Section ; Vol. V. of the same Catalogue was completed in 

 manuscript to the end of the red-figure section. A Guide to 

 the Gallery of Sculpture Casts was published. 



Moulds have been made of four slabs of the Parthenon 

 frieze, of the Strangford Apollo, of the Trentham mourning 



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