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Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



The re-arrangement of the Ephesus Room has been nearly- 

 completed ; an archaic Ionic capital from Ephesus has been 

 restored and erected in the Archaic Room, and part of another 

 placed under glass ; 22 sculptures, two mosaics, and one 

 inscription have been repaired and mounted. 



Moulds and casts have been made from four fragments of 

 the Erechtheum, the figures of Cecrops and his daughter in 

 the west pediment of the Parthenon, a stele in the Phigaleian 

 Room, the Ionic capital from the archaic temple at Ephesus, 

 and four Aretine vases. 



The pedestals and plinths of the Ephesus, Nereid, Mauso- 

 leum and Archaic Rooms, as also the mosaics on the North- 

 western Staircase, have been cleaned; 74 vases, 21 terra-cotta 

 reliefs, and the collection of objects in gold, porcelain, ivory, 

 and fragments of pottery from Enkomi in Cyprus, have been 

 cleaned and repaired. 



The terra-cotta reliefs in the Etruscan Saloon have been 

 re-arranged and re-mounted ; four cases have been prepared 

 and fitted up with velvet for the gold ornaments from 

 Cyprus ; 25 vases have been mounted on plinths, and a series 

 of gems and rings on velvet-covered blocks ; progress has 

 been made in mounting on tablets the collection of surgical 

 instruments and other small objects in bronze ; a plinth has 

 been prepared for a glass shade in the Etruscan Saloon ; 

 60 wood and 7 ebonized labels have been prepared ; wall- 

 cases 19-25 of the Etruscan Saloon have been fitted with 

 •shelves and papered. 



The walls and ceilings of the Second, Third, and Fourth 

 Vase Rooms have been painted and decorated ; the walls and 

 ceilings of the North-West Staircase painted ; five drawinos 

 tiave been framed and placed in the Sculpture Galleries ; the 

 vases in the First Vase Room have been re-numbered; a series 

 of duplicate antiquities from Curium in Cyprus has been 

 presented to Eton College ; 1,996 bronzes have been cata- 

 logued and 128 fac-similes of bronze stamps made ; 532 

 objects have been registered ; 467 descriptive titles written 

 and attached to objects. 



Volumes III. and IV. of the Vase Catalogue, and a 

 publication entitled " White Athenian Vases," have been 

 issued ; the section of the General Guide describing the 

 antiquities in the Department has been revised and enlarged, 

 and progress has been made with the Catalogues of Vases 

 (Volume I.), Sculpture (Volume IL), and Bronzes. 

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