62 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEaM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, Sc. 



In the Terracotta Room the new wall cases on the north 

 side have been finished, and two pedestal cases fitted ; the col- 

 lection of terracottas has been re-arranged and in great part 

 remounted. The arrangement of the Room of Greek and 

 Roman Life has been completed. All the cases in the Bronze 

 Room have been refitted, and the bronzes re-arranged, and 

 the mounting of many of the larger pieces has been altered. 

 Wall-cases in the Fourth Vase Room have been fitted for 

 the exhibition of Roman pottery, and the Roman lamps have 

 been moved from the Terracotta Room to a table-case in this 

 room. The Greek statue from Trentham has been set up in 

 the Phigaleian Room. In the Elgin Room many plaster casts 

 of fragments of the sculptures of the Parthenon which are 

 in Athens have been fitted in their places ; the glass covering 

 the Parthenon frieze has been removed and refixed ; and a 

 table-case has been altered for the exhibition of sculptural 

 fragments. Two restored capitals and a column-base from 

 the Temple of Artemis have been moved from the Archaic 

 Room to the Ephesus Room and plaster columns have been 

 built up beneath the capitals. The new wall-cases in the 

 Greek Ante-Room have been completed, and the collection 

 of smaller sculptures in stone and marble arranged in them. 

 The restored columns from the doorway of the " Treasury of 

 Atreus " at Mycenae have been fixed in position in the wall 

 of the Archaic Room. 



The collection of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture has 

 been transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum at 

 South Kensington to the British Museum, and is now stored 

 in the Mausoleum Room and the basements pending the 

 construction of a special gallery for its proper exhibition. 



The antiquities from the excavations at Ephesus, which 

 were temporarily deposited in the British Museum, have 

 been returned to the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Con- 

 stantinople, excepting some duplicates and pieces of minor 

 importance which were allotted to the Museum by the 

 Turkish Government. 



Sixteen new moulds have been made from the sculptures. 

 Sixteen marble vases, a marble head, 39 statuettes, a relief, 

 2 terracotta slabs, and many architectural sculptures have 

 been mounted on pedestals of stone or marble ; 281 terra- 

 cottas, 13 bronzes, and many miscellaneous objects have been 

 mounted on wooden blocks. 



Six alabaster figures, 37 bronzes, 13 ivories, 186 leaden 

 seals, 129 terracottas, 66 vases, and various other antiquities 



