ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



ponding as far as possible with the original position of the several slabs, and illustrating 

 the subjects represented in the sculptures. Explanatory titles are being inscribed, and as 

 soon as the stone fixings and other fittings are cleaned and finished, the room will be 

 ready for public exhibition. 



In the passage adjoining the Assyrian Baseraent-Room some bas-reliefs of the time of 

 Tiglath Pileser II., removed by Mr. Rassam from the ruins of the south-west Palace at 

 Nimroud, have been put together and fixed. 



On the west side of the Sepulchral Basement-Room the Etruscan sarcophagi and 

 cinerary urns have been in great |)art arranged in recesses fitted up in a manner illustrative 

 of the construction and decoration of the tombs from which these monuments were taken ; 

 and recesses have been prepared for the arrangement of the Roman sepulchral antiquities 

 on the east side of the same room. 



The temporary glass shed under the colonnade to the west of the principal entrance, 

 which was extended at the beginning of the last winter to the south-west angle of the west 

 wino- has received the supplemental collection from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, 

 excavated by Mr. Newton in 1857-8. 



On the east side of the principal entrance, in a shed extending to the south-west angle of 

 the east wintr, have been provisionally arranged the various monuments discovered or pur- 

 chased by Mr. Newton at Branchidse, Cnidus, and other localities. 



The Punic inscriptions, and Roman mosaic pavements, excavated by the Rev. N. Davis, 

 on the sites of ancient Carthage and Utica, have been removed from the small room in 

 which they were at first received, and which has been now transferred to the use of the 

 Formatore, and have been temporarily arranged in the Western Basement-Room, previously 

 occupied by the sculptures lately removed to the new Assyrian Room. 



The remainder of the broken bas-reliefs from Koyunjik, several fractured Assyrian 

 inscriptions, and a few of the mosaics from Carthage, have been repaired and backed with 

 slates. 



The remaining sculptures in the Greek and Roman collections have been cleaned under 

 Mr. Westmacott's direction. 



The Second Vase Room and the Bronze Room have been ornamentally painted. 



A considerable part of the collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman terracottas has 

 been re-arranged in the Second Vase Room, the large bas-reliefs fitted up as panels in a 

 quasi-mural framework, and the principal small figures and minor fragments mounted on 

 mahogany stands, and inscribed with explanatory titles. 



The specimens of Roman fresco-painting have been arranged beside the terracotta bas- 

 reliefs, and in a similar manner. 



Seventy Phoenician inscriptions, procured by the Rev. Nathan Davis from Carthage, have 

 been printed from lithographic stones by Mr. Netherclift. 



The preparation of the Eleventh volume of the Museum Marbles has been continued, and 

 about half of the text has been printed. 



The fac-similes of the Abbott and D'Orbiney Papyri have been completed, and the text 

 to accompany them is being printed. 



Fifty-seven Egyptian Antiquities have been described and catalogued. 



183 Egyptian objects have been mounted; 58 larger Egyptian Antiquities have been 

 fixed on stone or alabaster pedestals, and 16 Egyptian Tablets have been framed and 

 glazed. 



Two Egyptian Papyri have been examined and cleaned. 



1773 miscellaneous antiquities have been registered, and 6896 descriptive titles and 

 numbers have been affixed to objects in the general collections. 



Medal Room. — 7997 Coins have been registered. 



495 slips of the Catalogue of Greek Coins have been written. 



The Roman Silver Coins have been more perfectly arranged, and descriptive cards for 

 the same from Faustina Junior to Quietus, have been prepared. 



The Roman Gold Coins have been arranged, and descriptive cards written for them from 

 J. Caesar to Severus Alexander. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(A.) General Antiquities. — In the last report the arrival, at the close of the year 1858, 

 of 111 cases of sculpture from Mr. Newton's excavations at Halicarnassus, Branchidse, and 

 Cnidus was mentioned, together with that of 51 cases from the excavations of the 

 Rev. N. Davis at Carthage and Utica. 



These antiquities, being the result of excavations carried on at the expense of Her 

 Majesty's Government, must be specially noticed. They are as follows : — 



I. The collections received in 1858 from C. T. Newton, Esq., at that time British Vice- 

 Consul at Mytilene, and now Her Majesty's Consul at Rome, were stated in the last 

 Annual Report to be only in part unpacked. Since that period some important addi- 

 tions, brought over in Her Majesty's ship " Supply," have been received from the same 



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