66 accounts, etc., of the british museum, 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, &c. 



The collection of casts from antique sculptures, which was^^ 

 transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum, has been, 

 cleaned and remounted, and arranged for exhibition in a tem- 

 porary gallery, which was opened to the public in August. 



A rearrangement of the sculptures of the West Pediment of 

 the Parthenon, by which the existing fragments are grouped 

 more nearly at their proper relative heights and angles, was- 

 carried out experimentally with plaster casts of the figures ; 

 and this having been approved by the Trustees, the work of 

 altering the pedestals and remounting the oiiginal marbles i& 

 now in progress. The figure of Victory, hitherto assigned ta 

 the East Pediment, has been removed from that group, and will 

 be restored to its ascertained place in the West Pediment. 



The Elgin Room has been repainted. A marble tomb fromi 

 Lycia has been reconstructed and mounted in the Archaic Room, 

 and the rearrangement of the room has been completed. Four- 

 marble stelEe were mounted and placed in the Phigaleian. 

 Room. Parts of two marble friezes were remounted on the 

 wall of the Mausoleum Room, bronze frames for labels were 

 made and fixed to the curved pedestals of Roman busts. 



The arrangement of the first Vase Room has been altered, 

 the Corinthian, Rhodian and other Asiatic wares being trans- 

 ferred to the second Vase Room, where the " Black-figure " 

 vases were concentrated to make room for them. In the first 

 room the recently acquired Minoan vases from Crete were 

 arranged in a standard-case; a table case was fitted for the 

 exhibition of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery fragments, ivories, 

 bronzes, glass jewellery and similar objects, and several large 

 jars and chests were brought up from the Basement. The wall- 

 cases were refitted for the better exhibition of the Cypriote 

 and other early wares. Cupboards and table-cases were fitted 

 with shelves for the storage of unexhibited vases in the four 

 Vase Rooms ; wall-cases in the third room were altered for the 

 exhibition of white Lecythi, and a shade was fitted for Roman 

 glazed vases in the fourth Vase Room. Two table-cases were 

 fitted with shallow glass-covered drawers for the exhibition of 

 pottery fragments and patterns of ancient marbles. 



Four glass shades were made and fitted on cases in the Bronze 

 Room. In the Gold Ornament Room the case of silver statuettes 

 was rearranged and the Marlborough cameos were re-mounted. 

 Part of a terracotta roof from Civita Lavinia was reconstructed 

 upon oak rafters, and the restoration was mounted in anew 

 standardrcase in the Terracotta Room. 



Eleven new moulds have been made of slabs of the frieze 

 of the Parthenoir ; five marble heads, ten reliefs and an inscrip- 

 tion have been mounted on stone pedestals; 168 vases, 

 11 bronzes, 14 terracottas, an ivory relief, and 30 objects in 

 gold and silver have been mounted on wooden blocks. An 



