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Department of Greek and Koman Antiquities. 



I. — ArrangeTTient, Cataloguing, etc. 



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

 tinued ; progress has been made in restoring a capital and 

 column from the later temple of Artemis and in preparing 

 stands, fittings and labels for the plaster moulds and store- 

 casts in the basement. 



Twenty-eight sculptures have been mounted on plinths or 

 repaired ; an iron dowel has been removed from the drum 

 of a column of the Propylsea ; 170 pedestals and plinths, 

 a head of Perseus, a mosaic in the Etruscan Saloon, 8 slabs 

 of the Phigaleian frieze, the cast of the Hermes of Praxiteles,, 

 and 9 store-casts of the Parthenon frieze have been cleaned 

 or repaired ; new moulds have been made from 10 slabs of the 

 Phigaleian frieze, from a group in the West pediment of the^ 

 Parthenon, from a head of Apollo in the Mausoleum Room,- 

 from pieces of architecture and sculpture from Ephesus, and 

 from five objects in terra-cotta. 



The terra-cotta sarcophagus from Clazomense, with cover, 

 has been repaired and mounted in two glass cases in the First 

 Vase Room ; it has also been drawn and photographed for 

 publication. The collection of vases in this room has beem 

 partially re-arranged,the other sarcophagi from Clazomense and 

 Cameiros having been transferred to a wall-case on the West 

 side of the room, and the collection of vases from Rhodes and 

 Naucratis re- arranged in the adjoining wall-cases and iib 

 table-case D ; and the two large pithoi from Cameiros and 

 lalysos having been placed on tops of cases in the 

 Terra-cotta Room. 



The collection of ornaments in gold and ivory from; 

 Enkomi, in Cyprus, has been arranged in the Gold Ornament 

 Room, and the collection of silver ornaments in the Vestibule;, 

 table-case D in the Bronze Room has been le-arranged, and^ 

 the contents mounted on tablets ; two cases in the Third 

 Vase Room and two in the Fourth Vase Room have been 

 re-glazed and fitted with new locks, and raised on plinths ; 

 a series of labels has been made for the Vase Rooms and for 

 the Mosaics on the North-West Staircase, and a mahogany 

 case provided for the Catalogues kept in the Vase Rooms j 

 the copies of Etruscan paintings on the walls of the Vase 

 Rooms have been taken down and cleaned; and the walls 

 and ceilings of the Third Grseco-Roman Room, Grseco-Roman 

 Basement, Bronze Room, and Etruscan Saloon have been 

 repainted and decorated. 



Fourteen vases, 3 bronzes, and a series of objects from 

 Cyprus have been cleaned and repaired ; 8 bronzes, 2 vases, 

 and a series of gold ornaments have been mounted on plinths 



