-^§ ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



7. Fictile lekythus, with red figures representing CEdipus slaying the Sphinx with his 

 spear ia the presence of Athene, Apollo, the Dioscuri, and a figure named ^neas. The 

 names of these figures are inscribed beside them. In the figure of Athene white colour 

 and gilding have been employed, as if to represent a chryselephantine statue [Journal of 

 Hellenic Studies, VIIL, pi. 81]. 



8. Terra-cotta figure o recumbent lioness and two spouts of vases. 



9. Fragment of plain ware and of rough red-figured ware. 

 • 10. Three iron knives with wooden handles. 



11. Alabastos, with two meenads and a crane drawn in a delicate archaic manner in 

 black and brown on a white ground. The vase is signed by the hitherto unknown 

 painter Pasiades [Journal of Hellenic Studies, VIIL, pi. 82]. 



12. Kylix inscribed nPOSArOPEY£2, with nude male figure running to right [Klein, 

 Meistersign., 2nd ed. p. 221]. 



13. Silver finger-ring with a gold fly attached to it. 



In the foreo-oing list, Nos, 1, 2 were found together in one toinb, as were also Nos. 

 3-6, 7-10, 11-13. 



X. Marble group of Ganymede and the eagle. Ganymede leans idly on the stem of a 

 tree, and looks towards the eagle. 



A. S. Murray. 



Department of British and MEDiicvAL Antiquities and Ethnoghaphy. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. This room was approaching completion at the end of 

 1887, but it was not opened to the public until the 5th March of the jjresent year. It 

 may, however, be more convenient to include in this Return the arrangements up to the 

 opening, as they were completed before the Keturn will be laid before Parliament. 



Fittings have been made for the wall-cases of this room, those for the pottery collections 

 being painted, and those for the glass covered with satin and satin paper. The backs 

 have been lined with flock paper or satin paper. The specimens have been cleaned, 

 arranged in the cases, and to a great extent provided with temporary card labels. 

 Fittings have been made for a central case removed from the Ethnographical Gallery, a"nd 

 in it have been placed a number of portrait medallions in wax, and the plaster cast of 

 Flaxnian's Shield of Achilles. Two new table-cases with metal tops have been received, 

 placed in position, lined with j^aper, and specimens have been arranged in them. Nine 

 mahogany frames for tiles have been made and stained, and eleven trays for glass have 

 been made and lined with velvet. Thirteen busts modelled by Roubiliac have been 

 placed along the tops of the wall-cases. Twenty-three general labels for sections, and a 

 considerable number of temporary card labels for individual specimens, have been written, 

 and distinguishing letters have been painted upon, or fixed over, the central cases. 



English Ceramic Ante Room. Fittings have been made and painted for the wall-cases, 

 the backs of these, and the inside of one table-case, have been lined with flock paper, and 

 shelves of wood or glass have been fitted. The objects have been ax-ranged in the cases, 

 and, with iew exceptions, have been furnished Avith temporary card labels. Four frames 

 of transfer-printed tiles have been placed in the door frames of the lower range of wall 

 cases. 



Prehistoric Suhion. The arrangement of this Saloon was interrupted by the necessity 

 of completing that of the Glass and Ceramic Gallery, through which alone the public 

 could have access to the exhibition gallery of the Print Department. 



The wall-cases containing the Late Celtic, antiquities have been emptied, some additional 

 fittings have been made, the whole has been painted and the specimens replaced. 



A selection of the more remarkable objects from the Peccadeau de ITsle collection has 

 been temporarily arranged in a table case placed in the Prehistoric Saloon. Ten mounting 

 tablets have been papered and 199 prehistoric specimens mounted. 



Ethnographical Gallery. Two ranges of temporary exhibition cases have been 

 removed from above the wall cases in the Asiatic Saloon, andre-erecttd over those in the 

 New Guinea section in this gallery. Wire trellis has been fitted on the backs of these 

 cases, and here have been arranged the larger specimens from the extensive New 

 Guinea series presented by the Queensland "Commissioners of the Colonial :ind Indian 

 Exhibition. 



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