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C. Fragment of an Assyrian bas-relief mounted on 

 slate. 



Presented by Mrs. E. K. Holland Drake. 



7. Bronze vase from a corner of the Great Hall of 

 Xerxes at Persepolis. 



Presented by H. Weld Blundell, Esq. 



E. Maunde Thompson. 



Department of Greek and Eoman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Progress has been made in the arrangement of the Mauso- 

 leum Room ; the statues of Mausolos and Artemisia, and the 

 remains of the quadriga have been moved and re-erected on 

 pedestals in the centre of the room ; preparations have been 

 made towards re-constructing two of the columns of the Mau- 

 soleum, and a section of the entablature and ceiling of 

 the colonnade ; progress has been made in repairing and 

 mounting on slate a terra-cotta cornice from Civita 

 Lavinia ; four other sculptures, a series of fragments of 

 sculpture, and part of a column have been mounted on 

 plinths, and two marble corbels have been made for busts ; 

 a torso has been fitted to the figure of a boy beside the 

 Leucothea (?) in the west pediment of the Parthenon ; eighteen 

 inscriptions have been mounted on stone plinths, and a series 

 of inscriptions from Knidos re-arranged in the Inscription 

 Room ; the Carthaginian mosaics have been transferred from 

 a Store Room to the Sepulchral Basement ; four screens have 

 been prepared for sculptures in the Elgin Room ; two new 

 pedestals and one glass shade prepared for vases ; six glass 

 shades fastened down with screws; fifty-nine vases and a series 

 of fragments of pottery from Naucratis have been cleaned and 

 repaired ; thirty-eight vases (bronze and fictile) have been 

 mounted on stands, and twenty-seven gems on velvet-covered 

 blocks ; two cases for bronzes, two for vases, two for terra- 

 cottas, and two for gold ornaments have been fitted and 

 arranged ; new blinds have been put up in the Bronze Room 

 and Vase Rooms, and the fittings altered ; eight sets of casts 

 of select gems for presentation have been verified ; thirty-four 

 new moulds have been made from sculpture and architecture ; 

 ninety objects have been photographed; three hundred and 

 seventeen vases have been catalogued ; two hundred and 

 thirty-eight objects registered ; three hundred and sixty-three 

 descriptive titles written and attached to objects ; thirty-one 

 drawings of vases and thirteen reproductions have been made, 

 and twenty shapes of vases drawn for the Catalogue ; Volume 



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