64 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c. 



A gallery has been built for the temporary accommodatiori 

 of the casts of antique sculpture recently transferred from the 

 Victoria and Albert Museum, and the cleaning and mounting 

 of the casts is in progress. 



In the Archaic Room the sculptures from Branchidae have 

 been moved and remounted ; they now stand in two rows 

 flanking the central gangway, in a manner suggestive of their 

 original position. The friezes from Xanthos have also been 

 moved and remounted together on the South wall, and many 

 of the slabs have been cleaned and repaired. The arrangement 

 of other sculptures in the room has been improved.' 



The Roman altar and the two lavers from the collection of 

 the Duke of Sutherland at Trentham Hall, have been repaired 

 and set up in the Hall of Inscriptions. Statues in the Graeco- 

 Roman Annexe have been re-arranged. 



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

 exhibition of objects in Porcelain. The collections of carved 

 Ambers and Ivories have been re-arranged in a table-case in 

 the Terracotta Room Annexe, and another table-case in the 

 same room has been fitted for the reception of miscellaneous 

 antiquities. A case in the Gold Ornament Room has been 

 refitted. 



Eighteen new moulds have been made from the sculptures. 

 Two marble heads and four inscribed or sculptured slabs have 

 been mounted on stone pedestals ; 36 ambers, 10 ivories, 81 

 terracottas, and 84 bropzes, gems and gold ornaments have 

 been mounted on wooden blocks. 



The collection of mosaic pavements, a marble crater, 2 heads, 

 an inscribed block, a sculptured slab, a candelabrum, 90 fictile 

 vases, 100 terracottas, 36 bronzes, 16 gold or silver ornaments, 

 85 ivories, and 23 ambers have been cleaned or repaired. 



627 objects have been registered, 2,569 numbered; 259 labels 

 have been written ; 180 labels have been printed, and 23 framed 

 in the Department. 



The Account of the British Museum Excavations at Ephesus 

 (1904-5) has been published, and a 4th edition of the Guide ta 

 the Sculptures of the Parthenon has been issued. A Guide to 

 the Exhibition of Greek and Roman Life, and a Catalogue of 

 the Roman Pottery have also been published. 



Progress has been made with the preparation of reproductions 

 of the Sculptures of the Parthenon in folio, the Catalogue of 



