ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. J 3 



300 Egyptian objects have been fixed to tablets; 125 papyri mounted, and 24 framed 

 and glazed. 



Mahogany stands have been made for a large number of Greek and Roman Terracotta 

 Figures, glass vessels, and other objects. 



3,014 labels have been painted, to be placed with, or attached to objects in the general 

 collections. 



Medal Room. — Numerous minor improvements have been made in the Greek Autonomous 

 and Roman collections of Coins. In the Oriental collection, the coins of the Turkish Empire, 

 of the Moghul Dynasty in Persia, of the Khans of Kapchak, and, especially, of Armenia 

 and Georgia, have been thoroughly re-arranged, and placed in new cabinets, while the coins 

 of the Ortokite and Atabek Dynasties have been carefully revised. 



In the arrangement of the Mediaeval and Modern Coins, considerable improvements have 

 been made, especially in the Swiss, German, Imperial and Italian series. 



In the English portion, the London Tokens of the seventeenth century have been 

 separated from the others, and re-arranged in a more scientific order. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



(1.) General Antiquities. — Two Collections, the result of excavations undertaken under 

 the directions of Her Majesty's Government, nmst be separately noticed. 



(a.) The Collection, whicli reached England in July 1857, conveyed in Her Majesty's 

 ship '' Gorgon," and which had been excavated at Budrum (the ancient Halicarnassus), 

 under the personal superintendence of C. T. Newton, Esq , Her Britannic Majesty's Vice- 

 Consul at Mytilene. The most important portion of this Collection consists of Architectural 

 and Sculptural remains of the Mausoleum, or sepulchral monument, erected by Artemisia, 

 Queen of Caria, to her deceased husband, Mausolus, about B.C. 350. This monument, of 

 which the site \Nas first positively identified by the excavations of Mr. Newton, was esteemed 

 by the ancients one of the seven wonders of the world, and is recorded to have been em- 

 bellished by the sculptural skill of Scopas, Timotheus, Bryaxis, Leochares, and Pythis. 



The remains of the Mausoleum brought by the " Gorgon," consist of: — 



Five marble fragments, forming, when united, the principal portion of a colossal Horse, 

 supposed to have belonged to the Quadriga, sculptured by Pythis, on the summit of the 

 pyramid surmounting the building. On the Head of the Horse remain, though somewhat 

 mutilated, the bronze head-stall and bridle, which are believed to be the first examples 

 discovered in modern times of a method of decoration habitually employed by the 

 ancients. 



The Body of a Horse, rearing, and ridden by a figure in Asiatic costume, of which the 

 upper part is lost. 



A Colossal Male Statue, draped and erect, discovered in numerous fragments, which, 

 having been now rejoined, present, with the exception of the arms, a nearly complete figure. 

 The head exhibits a portrait conjectured with some probability to be that of Mau- 

 solus. 



A Colossal Female Figure, also draped and erect, without the head, hands, and left foot, 

 but otherwise in fair preservation, though, Sike the preceding, discovered in fragments. 



A Colossal Female Torso, draped and seated, much mutilated both in the extremities and 

 surface. 



A Standing Lion, of which the legs only are wanting, in fine preservation, and exhibiting 

 the remains of paint inside the mouth. 



Portions of at least seven other similar Lions, more or less mutilated, the fore-parts of 

 some of them having been in the middle ages removed and built into the walls of the castle 

 at Budrum, from which they have now been obtained by the permission of the Porte. 



Four Slabs, and several fiagments of Slabs, from a frieze of the building, representing 

 in high relief an Amazonomachia. They form part of the same series as the slabs removed 

 in 1846 from the walls of the castle, and presented by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe 

 to the British Museum ; they are, however, generally, in better preservation than those 

 slabs. 



A Colossal Female Head clothed in a Coif, and fragments of another similar head. 



A Male Head, well preserved, but on a smaller scale than the others. 



The whole of these Sculptures are executed in a style inferior only to that of Phidias, and 

 form the most valuable representation yet discovered of the Greek School of the fourth 

 century b. c. 



The architectural remains of the Mausoleum which accompanied the Sculptures include 

 part of an Architrave, a Capital, Base, and part of the Shaft of a Column, all of the Ionic 

 order, and on a large scale. 



Together with these is an extensive Collection of Marble fragments, architectural and 

 sculptural, evidently from the same great monument, but of which the connecting links are 

 still undiscovered. 



Among other Antiquities excavated by Mr. Newton at Budrum, but of which the precise 

 locality has not yet been ascertained, are, a draped Female Statue in rapid motion, of small 

 size, and much mutilated ; a Marble Pedestal in the form of a columnar capital, which 

 has been apparently used as the mouth of a well; 12 Bronze fragments, chiefly fittings for 

 architecture and sculpture; a Collection of Mosaic Pavements from a Roman villa of the 

 time of Septimius Severus, some of which, though coarsely executed and much broken, are 

 2ig. B 3 interesting 



