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



class of vases, the Museum now possesses two. The third is in the Louvre, and bears the 

 name of Berenice. Found at Canosa. (Described, Archiiol. Zeitung, Berlin, 18G9, 

 p. 35, No. 5.) 



Excavations at Ephesus. Mr. Wood has continued the exploration of the site of the 

 Temple of Diana, and has succeeded in determining its area by tracing the remains of the 

 platform on which it was built. By following out these indications, Mr. Wood has 

 proved that the length of the Temple measured on the lowest step of the platform was 

 418 feet 1^ inches, and its width, measured from the same points, was 239 feet 4| inches. 

 Pliny states that the lengtli of the entire Temple (imiversum templum) was 425 feet, and 

 its width 225 feet. If we suppose Pliny to have made his calculations in Roman feet, 

 his dimension for the length would nearly correspond with the length as measured by 

 Mr, Wood on the lowest step, and the expression, universum templum, would thus mean 

 the Temple inclusive of the steps on which it stood. But the actual Avidtli on the lowest 

 step, 239 feet 4 1 inches, is altogether irreconcileable with Pliny's 225 feet, and the dis- 

 crepancy can only be explained by supposing that here, as elsewhere where numerals 

 occur in ancient texts, a clerical error has crept in. The length and breadth of the 

 platform having been thus ascertained by measurements of its lowest step, Mr. Wood has 

 been able to determine the general plan of the Temple itself in the following manner. 

 Sufficient remains of the cella walls were discovered to determine the area of the cella. 

 The intercolumniation of the peristyle was fixed, by the recurrence, at regular intervals of 17 

 feet, of the foundations on which the columns had been placed. The length and breadth, 

 again, of the peristyle, 342 feet 6^ inches, by 163 feet 9i inches, was determined by calcu- 

 lating the length and breadth of the platform measured on its upper step. The statement 

 of Vitruvius and Pliny that the Temple was octostyle and distyle proves to be correct. 

 Exjjloring the ground beyond the line of the lower step on each side, Mr. Wood found 

 on the north side of the Temple a long line of pavement which he believes to mark a 

 colonnade running parallel with the platform, and which he su];>poses to have been 

 about 25 feet wide. On the south side he has found a corresponding line of portico, and 

 beyond it to the south the remains of a Doric building, the character of which has not yet 

 been ascertained, but which, from the style of the architecture, appears to be of about the 

 same date as the Temple itself. 



In the course of clearing out the area, Mr. Wood discovered a number of fragments of 

 sculptured drums, architectural marbles, and inscriptions. As only a portion of these has 

 as yet reached England, their value and significance can hardly be appreciated till the 

 whole of the marbles discovered on this site have been studied in connection, and the 

 fragments as far as possible united. 



C. T. Newton. 



Depaetment of Beitish and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Two central glass cases have been placed in the portion of the second Egyptian Room, 

 occupied by the Slade and other Glass Collections ; one of them has been fitted up with 

 glass shelves and platforms, the other is in progress. In the completed case, have been 

 arranged the specimens of German, Dutch, French, and Spanish glass. 



A further portion of the Indian sculptures from the Bridge Collection has been 

 mounted on stone pedestals. 



The registration of acquisitions has been continued; 520 antiquities have been mounted 

 on tablets; and 315 matrices of seals have been mounted, with impressions at their sides. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



The acquisitions, exclusive of the additions to the Slade and Christy Collections, may 

 be classed as follows : — 



(1.) British Antiquities. — Two important collections have been acquired, viz. : — 



(a.) The collection formed by the late Avell-known antiquary, John Thurnam, Esq., 

 M.D., F.S.A., consisting of British urns, stone and bronze implements, a rare Roman arm- 

 purse found at Farndale, Yorkshire, and numerous other antiquities, chiefly discovered 

 by Dr. Thurnam in his researches among British barrows. 



(J.) A portion of the collection of the late J. F. Lucas, Esq., of Bentley Hall, near 

 Ashbourne, Derbyshire, including nine British urns from Derbyshire and Huntingdon- 

 shire, jet ornaments from early British barrows ; the pomel of a late Celtic sword ; 

 Anglo-Saxon remains from Tissington, and Wigberlow, in Derbyshire, and from Wood- 

 stone, Huntingdonshire, 



Among the other acquisitions, the following may be noticed : — 



A bronze palstave found in the Thames, off Greenwich, presented by the Lords Com- 

 missioners of the Admiralty ; another found near Shrewsbury, presented by J. M. Foster, 

 12 J. D 3 Esq., 



