accounts, &c., of the british museum. 29 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement^ Catalogniiifj, Sfc. 



Four inscriptions, tliiity-four sculpture?, seven pieces of architecture, thirty-five 

 terracottas and six bronzes liave been mounted on plinths ; two mosaics have been repaired 

 and mounted on slate ; twenty-six terracottas, sixty-seven fictile vases, five bronzes, 

 twenty-three objects in ivory, one in iron and one in silver have been cleaned and repaired ,• 

 one fragment of fresco ])ainting has been framed and mounted ; twenty-four new moulds 

 of sculptures and seventeen new moulds and casts of gems have been made ; twenty-two 

 gems have been mounted in silver gilt settings, and ninety-seven gems, rings and gold 

 ornaments on velvet-covei'ed blocks; two shelves have been placed for sculpture in the 

 Archaic Room ; progress has been made in arranging the sculptures in the Ephesos Soom; 

 twenty-four plates illustrative of sculptures have been framed and placed in the Mauso- 

 leum Room; the arrangement of the vases and terracotta lamps in t!ie Fourth Vase Room 

 has been completed ; two new table cases have been placed in the Second Vase Room, 

 one new glass shade in the Fourth Vase Room and two new turret cases in the First 

 Bronze Room ; new locks have been fitted to the wall cases in the Fourth Vase Room 

 and the Second Bronze Room. 



Progress has been made in the selection of duplicates and in preparing an index of 

 the subjects in the entire collection of ])ainted vases ; three hundred and fifty-six de- 

 scriptive titles have been attached to objects; two hundred and forty-eight objects have 

 been registered ; sheets C-R. of Part III. of "Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British 

 Museum" have been printed off. 



Number of new students admitted to sculpture galleries, 186 ; number of visits paid by 

 students for the purpose of drawing and modelling, 10,834.; number of visitors and 

 students admitted to the sculpture galleries on Wednesdays and Fridays, 4,033; number 

 of visitors and students admitted to Graeco-Roman Basement, 191. 



II. — A cqidsitions. 

 I. — 1. Female head In terracotta. 



2. Fictile kantharos with red figures on black ground. 

 II. — 1. Small bronze model of an altar inscribed AIOS. 



2. Terracotta group of a female figure seated on an ass and holding an infant in her 

 arms. From Salamis, Cyprus. 



3. Terracotta statuette of a female dancer, draped and veiled. From Salamis, Cyprus. 



III. — Fictile livater with red figures on a black ground, representing on the one side 

 Hades carrying off Persephone in a chariot, preceded by Hekate ; on the other side a 

 combat of Centaurs and Lapiths. {See Philologus, Suppl. Band, IV. (1884) p. 643, No. 2). 



IV. — Terracotta group of two female figures seated on a couch, remarkable for the 

 beauty of the composition and for the fine condition of the group. From Asia Minor. 



V. — 1. Base of a column. 



2-3. Two Corinthian capitals of pilasters. 



4. Corinthian capital. 



5. Upper part of marble stele with floral ornament. 



6. Fragment from the upper part of a marble stele with floral ornament. 



These six marbles were formerly the property of the Earl of Elgin. {See Hellenic 

 Journal, VI. pp. 42-44, Nos. 2, 6, 7). 



VI. — 1. Gold ring engraved with figure of Victory erecting a trophy, and inscribed 

 PAPMENQN 

 BASIAEI 



2. Gold ring engraved with female figure seated and holding out a bird towards an 

 Eros. 



3. Sard intaglio : Eros kneeling on altar and looking up at a butterfly on a column; in- 

 scribed <I)IAE1 ME. 



4. Chalcedony intaglio, fragmentary : part of figure of Centaur pierced in the back by 

 an arrow, and of inscription, Xi [pwy?]. 



5. Red jasper intaglio : portrait head of the Empress Lucilla (?). 



VII. Plasma intaglio ; the three Fates. 



VIII. Archaic fictile lehythos with incised inscription, retrograde; TaraiJjc t^i \i](fvBoQ, 

 og S'av fxi. KXiipy, dv(j)\og 'iarai. Found at Cumae. {See Roehl, Inscript. Graec. 

 Antiquiss. No. 524 ; cf Hellenic Journal, VI, p. 373). 



0.102. E IX. Fictile 



