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



ornamentd mounted on velvet-covered blocks ; eighty-three gems mounted in silver-gilt 

 settings; two new cases fitted and arranged with silver objects in the Gold Ornament 

 Room ; four new cases for sculpture have been placed in the Elgin Room, and five new 

 shades for vases in the Vase Kooms; two wall cases in the Second Egyptian Room, five 

 table-cases and wall-cases 44-59, in the Second Vase Room, have been repapered and re- 

 arranged ; two plinths for a shelf placed in the Mausoleum Room ; a fragment has been 

 fitted to the leg of a horse on the Mausoleum frieze (Newton, History of Discoveries, 

 i. pi. 9, upper slab), and two other fragments have been put together ; two Lycian tombs 

 have been removed and replaced in the New Room ; five hundred and twenty-two 

 descriptive titles have been attached to objects; one hundred and eleven objects cata- 

 logued, and two hundred and sixty-six objects registered ; a new edition of the Guide 

 to the Exhibition Rooms has been issued. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



I. — A plaster cast from a fragment of the frieze of the Parthenon, formerly at Cataio, 

 and now the projjcrty of the Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria. 



F resented hy the Hof rath Herr Eitelberger, Director of the Bluseum fur Kunst 

 und Industrie at Vienna. 



II. — Marble slab from a Roman arch at Salonica, with a Greek inscription containing 

 the -word poll tare has, which we know to have been the title of a magistrate at Salonica 

 (see Acts of the Apostles, xvli, 6). Published in Boeckh's Corpus Inscriptionum Graeearum, 

 No. 1967; and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, 2nd Series, viii, 

 p. 528. 



Presented by J. E. Blunt, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Salonica. 



III. — 1. Fragment of Roman tessellated pavement. Found at Mersa, the site of 

 Carthage, 



2. Fragment of earthenware pipe. From the ruins of Tipasa. 

 Presented by Colonel the Hon. Charles Smyth Vereker. 



IV. — Two fragments of pottery. From Santorin. 



Presented by M. A. Dumont, Director oj the Ecole Franfaise at Athens. 



V. — A collection of fragments of pottery. Found in the course of Dr. Schliemann's 

 excavations at Mycenae. 



Presented by Dr. Schliemann. 



VI. Thirty-five fragments of pottery. From Mycenae. 

 Presented by C. T. Newton, Esq., C.B. 



VII. — 1. An amber vase, the handles formed by two panthers climbing towards the mouth. 



2. A painter's pallet. From Cologne. 



3. A collection of fictile vases, from the Troad, among which the following may be 

 noticed: — An oinochoe and a pinax, similar to the Archaic fictile ware of Camirus ; five 

 aryballi, ornamented with figures of animals and flowers in the Asiatic style. On the 

 mouth of one of those aryhalU is the following inscription incised in Archaic letters ; — 

 TT)v8t aoi 6o[i)]8r)fioc SiSmcti. Among the vases with black figures in this collection is a 

 skyphos, with design of Dionysos reclining with attendant Satyrs ; on the reverse, a Satyr 

 and a goat. There are also in the series a number of vases of later style. 



Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



VIII. — 1. A collection of terra-cottas found in excavations at Capua. Noe. 1-19 are 

 reliefs, of which twelve are antefixal ornaments of joint tiles, imbrices. Among the subjects 

 represented are Artemis Persike, an anguipede giant, Artemis-Selene (?) on a horse, a 

 Sphinx, Gorgon, mask of Gorgon, female masks, and two figures jjlaying on lyre. No. 20 

 is a small sarcophagus, with female figure reclining, on the lid ; on the front an Etruscan 

 inscription painted. No. 21 is a female figure seated, and holding a child wrapped in 

 swaddling clothes, very rudely executed. For similar figures see Bullettino of the Roman 

 Institute, 1873, p. 147, and 1876, p. 181. 



Presented by M. Alessandro Castellani. 



IX. — A small intaglio in amethyst, three intaglios in sard, and one in obsidian, in- 

 scribed PIILOGENET. 



Presented by P. Henderson, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Benghazi. 



X. — 1. An object in ivory, probably an ex voto. 

 Presented by the Rev. M. Brock. 



XL — 1. Six alabaster beads. From Bolsena. 



2. Marble lamp. From Alexandria. 



3. Terra-cotta bust of a female figure, coarsely modelled and painted in natural colours. 

 From Medinet-el-Fyoum (Crocodilopolis). 



Presented by the Rev. Greville Chester. 



XII. Purchases 



