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Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement. 



1. The Sculioture Galleries. — In the Elgin Room a recon- 

 struction of the frieze and cornice of the Erechtheum has been 

 completed ; easts of fragments of the frieze have been mounted 

 against a background of black marble and combined with slabs 

 of the architrave and cornice. 



The Ionic capital of the archaic Temple of Ephesus, 

 dismantled last year, has been restored, with two newly-fitted 

 fragments, and replaced. In the Mausoleum Room three slabs 

 of the cornice from the Temple of Athena Polias at Priene 

 have been completed with the aid of casts from Berlin. A 

 newly-acquired sarcophagus front and two lions' heads have 

 been mounted in the Mausoleum Room passage. 



A number of sculptures and casts of sculpture have been 

 removed to the King Edward VII. Galleries and set in 

 position on the staircase. Two casts of large Romano-British 

 reliefs have been temporarily mounted on the wall of the 

 Gallery of Casts, and other re-arrangements have been made. 



2. The Upper Galleries. — A re-arrangement of sherds and 

 vase fragments of various periods, in drawers, has been carried 

 out in the Second Vase Room. The unexhibited lamps have 

 been set out in drawers in the Fourth Vase Room according to 

 the order of the Catalogue. In the Bronze Room some of the 

 unexhibited bronzes have been re-arranged. A finding list of 

 bronzes was compiled, and the finding lists of vases and terra- 

 cottas revised. 



The section dealing with Public Games in the Exhibition 

 of Greek and Roman Life has been recomposed and re- 

 arranged ; and the section dealing with the Theatre has been 

 remounted. The renumbering and repainting in the Terra- 

 cotta Room, after the repapering carried out last year, has 

 been completed. 



The publication of the Catalogue of Lamps was completed. 

 Vol. L, Part L, of the Catalogue of Vases was completed fin 

 proof to the end of the Mycenaean Section ; Vol. V. of the 

 same catalogue was completed in manuscript. The volume of 

 Select Bronzes was completed in proof, and progress was made 

 with the Catalogue of Silver Plate, with the Greek Inscrip- 

 tions, and with the revised edition of Vol. I. of the Catalogue 

 of Sculpture. The collection of photogravures of select Marbles 

 and Bronzes was published, and the Postcard aeries was largely 

 increased. 



Moulds have been made of three slabs of the Frieze and 

 part of the Ilissos from the West Pediment of the Parthenon ; 

 of one head from Ephesus, and of part of the cornice of the 

 Mausoleum. The storecasts of the Athena and Poseidon of 



