60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Progress has been made in repairing and restoring archi- 

 tectural fragments from Ephesus ; 31 fragments have been 

 added to the Salutaris inscription from the theatre ; two 

 slabs of the frieze from a temple at Teos have been mounted, 

 and the background of the frieze restored. A terracotta 

 sarcophagus from Clazomenae has been repaired and mounted ; 

 a blank in the Parthenon frieze filled in with stone, a stone 

 vase from Cyprus restored, and two stone bases reworked. 

 The following sculptures have been mounted on marble bases : 

 a panther from the Mausoleum, a figure of Pan, and four 

 heads, including one of Faustina the younger and one of 

 Apollo. The following have been mounted on stone plinths : 

 a plaster capital from Cyrene and a shaft with reliefs ; four 

 reliefs, among which are two from Ephesus and one from 

 Phigaleia ; eight heads, a series of masks, a stele from Cyprus, 

 and three inscriptions. Eight marble bases and five stone 

 plinths have also been prepared for mounting sculptures. 



Two mosaics have been moved from the north-west stair- 

 ease to the Hall of Inscriptions, and replaced by the large 

 mosaic with head of sea-deity from Carthage ; a relief has 

 been fixed in the Mausoleum Annex, and a fragment of a 

 pilaster-capital in the Graeco-Roman Basement; a sarco- 

 phagus has been transferred from the Carthaginian to the 

 Graeco-Roman Basement, and the lid of another from the 

 Sepulchral to the Graeco-Roman Basement ; the inscriptions 

 in the Inscription Room have been re-arranged and classified ; 

 old numbers have been obliterated from the sculptures in 

 the Elgin, Phigaleian, and Mausoleum Rooms ; 68 pedestals, 

 64 plinths, and two mounts have been cleaned. 



Moulds and casts have been made from the following 

 objects: three slabs of the frieze, and two metopes of the 

 Parthenon ; a capital of the Erechtheion, and fragments of the 

 Mausoleum chariot frieze ; two heads, six fragments of a frieze, 

 and five of an inscription from Ephesus ; a head of an Asiatic, 

 and a terracotta relief. 



A wall-case in the Gold Ornament Room has been fitted up, 

 and a series of silver vessels and ornaments mounted therein 

 on ebonised stands ; a series of gilt panels with velvet edging 

 has been fixed on bearers in the Gold Ornament Room, 

 one fresco mounted in ebonised frame, and four frescoes fixed 

 in the Gold Ornament Room Vestibule ; new velvet fittings 

 have been provided for cases in the Gold Ornament Room, and 

 41 gems mounted on velvet-covered blocks. Cases 117-121 in 

 the Etruscan Saloon were altered for arrangement of objects 

 from Cyprus, and an upright case in the First Vase Room 

 fitted with velvet-covered iron brackets : a set of bronze 



