accounts, &c., of the british museum. 41 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, 6fc. 



Nine inscriptions, forty-eight sculptures, fourteen pieces of architecture, nine bronzes 

 and one cast have been repaired and mounted on plinths ; three casts have been mounted 

 on corbels, and one cast on a pedestal in the Archaic Room ; fifteen stone plinths have 

 been prepared for shelves in the Archaic Room ; portions of the frieze of the Parthenon 

 have been moved, and one marble fragment and t^o plaster casts have been inserted ; the 

 model of the Parthenon has been removed to the north end of the Elgin Room, and four 

 architectural members from the Erechtheum and Theseum have been fixed on the wall ; 

 four slate shelves have been removed from the walls of the Ephesian ante-room ; four new 

 cases for sculpture have been placed in the Archaic Room, a new shade for a vase in 

 the First Vase Room, and a new pedestal for a vase in the Third Vase Room ; twelve 

 terracottas, ninety-one fictile vases, and one gold ring have been cleaned and repaired; 

 forty new moulds and casts of gems have been made ; two hundred and fifty-two rings 

 have been mounted on velvet-covered blocks ; two cases in the Gold Ornament Room 

 have been fitted and arranged with silver objects ; thirty-four frames containing gems 

 have been fitted with loops of leather; the walls and ceiling of the Second Bronze Room 

 have been repainted ; new locks have been fitted to wall cases in the Third Vase Room 

 and the First Bronze Room ; the arrangement of the First Bronze Room and the Third 

 Vase Room has been nearly completed ; the inscriptions of Ephesus have been arranged 

 and numbered. 



Progress has been made in preparing an index of the subjects in the entire collection of 

 painted vases ; nine hundred and sixty engraved gems have been catalogued, two 

 thousand and five objects have been registered, three hundred and ninety-nine descriptive 

 titles have been attached to objects; Part III., section 1, of "Ancient Greek Inscrip- 

 tions in the British Museum, " a Guide to the Mausoleum Room, and a new illustrated 

 edition of the (iuide to the Elgin Koom, Part I., a new edition of the general Guide to 

 the Exhibition Rooms, and a Supplementary List of Casts from Sculptures, have been 

 issued. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



Hy Donation or Bequest. — I. An interesting collection of antiquities excavated by 

 Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie during tbe winter of 1884-85, on the site of the ancient 

 Naukratis, and published for the most part in " Naukratis, Part I., 1884-5," being the 

 *' Third Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund." 



Among these antiquities the following may be noted : — 



1. Limestone fi-agments from the archaic temple of Apollo, including parts of what 

 appears to be the necking of a column ornamented with a lotus pattern in flat relief; 

 parts of bead and reel, and egg and tongue mouldings, with remains of colour; part of a 

 base of a column ; part of a drum of a column, diameter 1 ft. 6 in., with 25 shallow 

 flutings. " Naukratis " pi. III. 



2. Marble fragments from the second temple of Apollo, including bead and reel 

 mouldino-s, and anthemion patterns, with remains of red and blue colour. " Naukratis," 

 pis. XIV., XIVa. 



3. Fragment of a limestone slab, inscribed in archaic characters Ttaw t/ii arina. 

 « Naukratis," pi. XXX, No. 1 ; Kirchhoff, Studien, 4th ed., p. 44. 



4. A marble block inscribed with the dedication of the palasstra to Apollo by Kleainetos 

 and Maiandrios. " Naukratis," pi. XXX, No. 4. 



5. A marble block inscribed with the dedication, probably of a ram, to Zeus Thebaios 

 (Zeus Ammon) by Ampelion. " Naukratis," pi. XXX, No. 2. 



6. A limestone slab, with ten lines of an elegiac inscription of sepulchral import, and 

 of a late period. " Naukratis," pi. XXXI. 



7. A series of fragments of pottery representing almost every stage of Greek vase- 

 painting. 



Among the archaic specimens are many with dedications to Apollo, beside whose 

 temple they were found, such as <?avr)c fit avidr}Ke T('u7roXXwv[t n^ Mi]\i]au^ 6 rXav9ou 

 , on the rim of a vase. This may be the Phanes whose story is told by Herodotus 

 (IIL 4). 



185. F Among 



