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or blocks ; 288 bronzes have been catalogued; 1,001 objects 

 registered ; 492 descriptive titles written and attached to 

 objects ; progress has been made in numbering the collection 

 of bronzes ; 30 photographic negatives and 64 drawings of 

 small objects have been made for the Bronze Catalogue. 



Progress has been made with the Catalogues of Vases 

 (Volume I.), Sculpture (Volume II.), and Bronzes, and in 

 view of the great interest now attaching to early Ionian art, 

 .particularly to the painted terra-cotta sarcophagus recently 

 acquired from Clazomense, in Asia Minor, a special publica- 

 tion has been prepared of this sarcophagus, to which have 

 been added a similarly painted terra-cotta sarcophagus from 

 Cameiros in Khodes and another sculptured with figures in 

 the round and in relief, from Caere in Etruria. 



The number of visits made by students to the Departmental 

 Library for purposes of research during the year is 660. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



By Donation, 



I.-l. Sard intaglio : Cupid riding on lion and holding lyre ; 

 inscribed MYKONHC and I HA (a similar gem in the Florence 

 Cabinet, Stosch, pi. 53). 



2. Jacynth intaglio : bearded head with diadem ; inscribed 

 in modern letters IVGVRTHA. 



3. Sard intaglio : Satyr carrying large amphora ; inscribed 

 KOINOY.6 {See Jahrbuch, 1889, p. 51, and King, Antique 

 Gems, p. 230). 



4. Sard intaglio : Bust of Omphale in lion's skin (King, 

 Antique Gems, p. 159). Emerson and Rhodes Collections. 



5. Sard intaglio : head of Ceres ; inscribed AYAOY (King, 

 Antique Gems, p. 200 ; formerly in the collection of Madame 

 de Pompadour, and afterwards in that of the Marquis de Dree; 

 Brunn, Gr. Kiinstler, ii. p. 553). 



Presented by Miss Naesmyth ; collected by her father, the 

 late Sir John Naesmyth, Bart, 



II. Marble slab with relief of a youth followed by an 

 attendant ; inscribed '^ovfii]vioQ Sfu0o[v] Av(Tfjuax£uc. From, 

 Pergamon. 



Presented by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, m.p. 



III. Roman portrait-bust in marble. 



From the island of Santorin {Thera). Presented by 

 Captain Blackburne. 



