ACCOUNTS, (S:C , OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VI. A Greek sepulchral monument in marble, probably from Asia Minor. It was 

 found in the Thames, and may have belonged to the collection of the Earl of Arundel. 



Presented hi/ the Rev. G. 7'. Hudson. 



VII. A foot in a sandal, from a draped female figure in white marble. 



Presented by the Royal Institulion through Dr. Be ace Jones. 



VIII. A small vase of red Roman ware, found at Cologne. 

 Presented by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



IX. An Athenian leaden weight, the 3rd of a mina. 



Presented by Augustus W. Franks, Esq. 



X. A terra-cotta mould of part of a female head, found near Moulins. 



Presejited by Professor E. Lartet, Paris. 



XI. Part of a vase of Aretine red ware, found at Arezzo. 



Presented by Henry Wallis, Esq. 



XII. Restoration of the so-called Artemisia. 



In the course of the last year, Mr. Wm. Story, the sculptor, very generously devoted 

 much time and thought to the restoration of the female figure from the Mausoleum called 

 by some Artemisia. This restoration, which has been carried out with great skill and 

 taste, has been executed in plaster, and the figure, so restored, having been j^resented to 

 the Museum by Mr. Story, is exhibited in the Mausoleum Room by the side of the 

 original statue. 



Purchases. — 1. Two fictile vases formerly in the collection of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. 

 One of these vases exceeds in dimensions any in the collection of the Museum. It 

 measures 3 feet 1 If inches in height, and is further remarkable for the vai'iety and 

 interest of the subjects painted on it, and for the richness of the ornaments. On the 

 obverse are represented the death of Priam and the meeting of Menelaos and Helen at 

 the taking of Troy ; on the revei'se, an assemblage of Olympic deities, a meeting of two 

 heroes, thought to be Menelaos and Pyrrhus, at an altar, and a battle of Greeks and 

 Amazons. 



The neck and handles of the vase arc richly ornamented with heads Issuing from 

 arabesque flowers, and with Avinged figures. This magnificent sjieciraen of the fictile 

 art of Southern Italy is published by Minervini, Bulletino Archeologico Xapolitano, 

 1858, p. 145. It Avas probably found in Apulia, and belongs to the Macedonian period. 



The other vase is a krater, on which are represented on one side, a battle of Centaurs 

 and Lapiths, with their names inscribed, and the toilet of Helen or Aphrodite ; the 

 subject of the picture on the other side is Dionysos, surrounded by Satyrs and Maenads. 

 This vase is remarkable for interest of subject, beauty of drawing, and the admirable 

 preservation of the opaque colours with which some of the details ai'e painted. 



2. A statue in white marble, of heroic size, representing a victorious athlete placing a 

 diadem round his head. This statue was found in the Roman theatre at Vaison ( Vasio) in 

 the south of France, and appears to be a free copy of the celebrated Diadumenus of 

 Polycletus, of which the Museum possesses another copy from the Faruese Collection. 

 The statue found at Vaison differs from the Farnese figure both in the general type and 

 in the position of the left foot, and the style of the sculpture approaches much nearer 

 to the Augustan period. It is very well modelled and especially interesting, as no third 

 repetition of this statue in marble is known to exist, except a small figure in relief in the 

 Vatican. 



Excavations I. Sardes. — A collection of fragments of fictile ware from tumuli at 

 Sardes, excavated by Mr. Consul Dennis. In 1868, Mr. Dennis was sent by the Foreign 

 Office, on the recommendation of the Trustees of the Museum, to explore the tumuli near 

 Sardes, commonly called Bintepe, and believed to contain the burial places of the Lydian 

 kings. This expedition was attended with extraordinary difficulties, in consequence of 

 the unhealthiness of Bintepe, the difficulty in procuring shelter in so exposed a site 

 during the winter, the want of labourers, and of any near base of operations, and the con- 

 stant interruption to communications with Smyrna, by the swelling of the Hermus. In 

 spite of these difficulties, however, Mr. Dennis succeeded in carrying on excavations at 

 Bintepe with a small force from November 1868 to May 1869, and explored several 

 tumuli, which he found, for the most part, to have been previously rifled. Among the 

 fragments of pottery which he discovered in these tumuli, were several, which may be 

 assigned to a very archaic period of fictile art. Pottery of the same kind, with lines 

 and geometrical patterns, has been found in the recent excavations at Jerusalem, in 

 Palestine, in the Phoenician or Graeco-Phcenician tombs in Cyprus, Rhodes, and other 

 islands in the Archipelago, and also at Mycenai and Tiryns. "Want of funds prevented 

 Mr. Dennis from continuing his researches at Sardes. During his stay at Smyrna in 

 1869, he obtained from the neighbourhood of that town a very interesting archaic figiu-e, 

 carved on the face of a cliff. The type of the features has somcAvhat of an Egyptian 

 character, but the execution is much ruder than that of Egyptian sculpture. On the 

 breast falls a necklace on which and the face are traces of red colour. This most curious 

 sculpture probably belongs to the Prehellenic period of Asiatic Art. 



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