26 ACCOUNTS, iVC, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Six inscriptions and twenty-seven sculptures have been repaired and mounted on 

 plinths ; two iVl osaics have been repaired and mounted ; sixteen sculptures and portions 

 of the frieze of the JVlausoleum have been cleaned; the cornice of the Mausoleum has 

 been moved and refixed in the New Mausoleum Room, and the Old Mausoleum Room has 

 been cleared and is now being re-painted ; the statue of Dionysos from Posilipo, and the 

 Eros, No. 145 in the Graeco-Roman Gallery, have been mounted on marble pedestals ; 

 nine vases and other objects have been placed under shades mounted on pedestals ; four 

 wall-cases in the Etruscan Room have been fitted with shelves and papered, and the 

 collection of Etruscan Black Ware has been arranged in them ; two wall-cases in the 

 Archaic Room have been papered, and sixteen marble heads have been arranged in them ; 

 progress has been made in the arrangement of the four Vase Rooms ; in the Fourth Vase 

 Room some specimens of Apulian Ware have been placed in a new table-case ; two wall- 

 cases have been papered and the Samian Ware arranged in them ; in the First, Second, 

 and Third Graeco-Roman Rooms, and in the Second Vase Room, the ceilings and walls 

 have been cleaned, and the pilasters re-painted ; thirteen bronzes have been cleaned, 

 repaired and mounted ; forty-one fictile vases, five terra-cottas, and six copies on canvas 

 of Etruscan paintings have been cleaned and repaired ; one piece of Greek linen has been 

 mounted within glass ; plaster casts have been taken of thirty-two gems ; eight hundred 

 and seven descriptive titles have been attached to objects, forty-seven objects have been 

 catalogued, and <me hundred and seventy-four objects registered. New editions have 

 been issued of the Guide to the Elgin Room, Part I., and of the General Guide ; and 

 twenty-eight sheets of Part II. of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum 

 have been completed. 



Moulds have been taken in plaster of ten sculptures, viz., one of the Fates (Guide to 

 Elgin Room, Part I., p. 13 K), the Iris (Guide to Elgin Room, Parr. I., p. 11, G), the slab 

 No. XV. from the Western Frieze of the Parthenon, and the head of youthful Dionysos 

 (Monumenti dell' Just. Arch. Rom. x. Tav. xx), all from store casts; the capital of a 

 Doric column from the Parthenon (Guide to Elgin Room, Part I., p. 103, 1), the 

 Kanephoros from the Erechtheum (ibid., Part II., E 3), the equestrian torso from the 

 Mausoleum (Newton, Travels, vol. ii, ph 4), head of Apollo (Guide to Graeco-Roman 

 Sculptures, Part I., No. 105), and head of Diana (ibid., Part I., No. 106), all from the 

 marble ; also of the statuette of Hermes, presented by Miss Halse, from the plaster 

 original. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



I. — Marble statue of an athlete about to throw a diskos held in his left hand; this 

 statue, of which there are several replicas in other museums, has been thought, but 

 without sufficient grounds, to be a copy of the Diskobolos of Naukydes, an ancient 

 artist of the Argive School. It is more probable, however, that all these replicas are 

 derived from some lost original of the best age of Athenian Art. This statue was 

 formerly in the Campana Collection. 



II. — Fictile oinochoe, decorated with a design of red figures with gilt accessories on a 

 black ground ; a bearded figure in Asiatic costume, supposed to represent Midas, rides 

 upon a dromedary, surrounded by a fhiasos of male and female figures similarly dressed, 

 who carry fans, torches, or musical instruments. The subject ot this vase is most rare, 

 and it is further remarkable for refinement of drawing and excellence of condition. It 

 was formerly in the Beckford Collection, afterwards in that of the Duke of Hamilton, 

 and was purchased at the Hamilton sale (Cat. No. 864.) Published, Monumenti dell' 

 Inst. Arch. Rom. L, pi. 50., and in the Archaol. Zeitung for 1844, pi. xxiv, 1, 2. 



III. — 1. A terra-cotta figure of Eros dancing, a. peplos floating across his chest ; the 

 entire figure has been painted, the wings blue and gilt, the body red upon a white glaze ; 

 the modelling and general condition very fine ; from Tanagra. 



2. Terra-cotta figure representing ^gipan seated cross-legged on a rock, at the foot of 

 which are a ram and two goats, one of which he holds by the horns ; on his right shoulder 

 he holds a lagobolon or shepherd's crook ; from Tanagra. 



3-4. Two terra-cotta figures representing respectively an old man and old woman in 

 grotesque attitudes ; from Tanagra. 



5-27. A series of bronze cups, vases, and other objects, twenty-one in number, said to 

 have been found at Galaxidi, near the ancient Delphi. These are remarkable for exquisite 

 beauty of form and fine condition. A marble tortoise, and a marble shell of the form 

 called strombos, with traces of purple and yellow colour. 



IV. — A collection of reliefs, heads, and other fragments of terra-cotta, part of a very 

 large deposit of votive terra-cottas discovered by Professor F. Lenorraant on the site of 



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