l6 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



gems, and mounted on gilt-edged paper ; one plaster cast has been made from a sculptured 

 relief; nine glass shelves have been placed in the vase-cases of the First Vase Room, to 

 reflect the under surface of the cups ; descriptive titles have been attacl^ed to five hundred 

 and seventy-three objects; four hundred and thirty objects have been catalogued, and 

 four hundred and thirty-four entries in the gem catalogue revised ; two thousand one 

 hundred and five objects have been registered. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



I. — (1.) Bronze figure-head, from a small ancient vessel, representing a bust, probably 

 intended for a personification of Rome. 



(2.) Terra-cotta amphora, covered with marine incrustations. 

 Both presented hj Her Majesty the Queen. 



Both these objects were obtained at Previsa, by the late Sir Howard Douglas, when 

 Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, shortly after their discovery in 1839. 

 They were dredged up by a fisherman in the outer bay of Previsa, which is considered 

 by Colonel Leake (Transactions Roy. Soc. Lit., 2nd series, I. p. 246), to be the site of the 

 battle of Actiiim. There is therefore an a priori probability that the figure-head belonged 

 to some vessel sunk in that battle. 



II. — Alabastos of dark clay. 



Presented hy John Henderson, Esq. 



III. — Roman vase of green glazed ware, found in Hungary. 



Presented hy Dr. Florian Homer, National Museum, Pesth. 



IV. — Head sculptured in green basalt, probably the Emperor Caligula. 

 Presented by the Rev. Greville Chester. 



V. — (1.) Amphora of Greek fictile ware, with black figures on a red ground, found at 

 Cydonia in Crete, 1858. 



(2.) Bronze top of Roman standard, from the Purnell Collection. 

 Presented hy A. W. Franks, Esq. 



VI. — Plate, pinax, of Greek fictile ware, on which fish are painted in red and white on 

 a black ground. 



Presented hy M. Gaston Feuardent. 



VII. — Eight fragments of pottery, probably of Phoenician origin, found in Moab in 

 the course of the expedition for exploring Palestine. 



Presented hy C. L. Euxton, Esq., and R. C. Johnso7i, Esq. 



VIII. — Paste intaglio, representing the bust of a Maenad, a most beautiful design. 

 Presented by Signor Alessandro Castellaiii, Rome. 



IX. Six iron arrow-heads found at Castra Vetera, now Fiirstenberg, near Xanten, 

 •^ Germany. 



Presented by Professor Ernst Aus^m Weerth, Kessenich, Bonn. 



X. — ( 1 . ) Etruscan amphora of black clay, round the body of which is a frieze of horse- 

 men in relief, of which the several groups are all from the same mould. 



(2.) A collection of antiquities from excavations atlalysos in Rhodes, consisting of the 

 following objects : — 



{a.) A number of fictile vases of the Archaic or GraBco-Phosnician period. One of 

 these, in form like a very long funnel, is of special interest, from the fact that its peculiar 

 shape corresponds with that of a vase found under the lava at Santorin {see Archives des 

 Missions Scientifiques, 2nd &vxiQ IV., premier rapport sur une mission scientifique a 

 Pile Santorin par M. F, Fouque, p. 223.) 



(6.) Objects in ivory or bone ; an archaic seated figure ; fragments of a casket mounted 

 with bronze, of a comb, of a pin ; two thin oval plates. 



(c.) Thirteen rosettes of bracteate gold ; four small rosettes, and one wire ring. 



(J.) Objects in silver; an oval ring of the same shape as one obtained in 1870 from 

 excavations at lalysos ; fragments of wire rings. These objects have all been plated with 

 gold. 



(e.) Two fish-hooks, two arrow-heads, one spear-head, two knife-blades and fragments 

 of wire, all of bronze. Among the bronze implements are some new and interesting 

 types. 



(/.) Intaglios: 



