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



VII. — 1. Wooden tishaMi figure 



2. Two scarabs - - - 



3. Two silver figures 



4. Three pendants 



5. Roll of papyrus 



6. Porcelain hippopotamus - 



Presented hy Walter Myers, Esq., f.s.a 



Modern imitations. 



VIII. — 1. Cover of a painted coffin of a dignitary who lived during the reign of 

 Amenhetep I., about B.C. 1G50. 



2. Two ostrich eggshells. 



3. Mummy hand, with ring and scarab. 



Presented by Arthur F. Wheeler, Esq. 



IX. — Eight sandstone stelae, inscribed in Cufic (about A.D. 1100), from the old 

 Muhammedan cemetery of Aswan. 



Presented 6?/ E. A. WaUis Budge, Esq., m.a. 



P. le P. Renouf. 



Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. 

 I. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, d-c. 



Seventy-six sculptures, six inscriptions, and fourteen terra eottas have been repaired 

 and mounted ; progress has been made with the new marble pedestals for the 

 sculptures of the West pediment of the Parthenon ; four slabs of the Parthenon 

 frieze have been moved ; a cast of a newly-discovered fragment has been fixed in 

 its place on the frieze ; the fragments of the Parthenon sculptures have been re- 

 arranged ; twenty shelves have been fixed for sculptures ; two sculptures and six 

 casts have been fixed on corbels ; the arrangement has been completed of the 

 Phigaleian Room, and of the Basement of sepulchral reliefs ; progress has been made 

 with the arrangement of the Archaic Room ; the Etruscan sarcophagi have been 

 transferred to the new Etruscan Saloon, and to the Gra?co-Roman Basement; the bust 

 of Sir C. T. Newton has been placed on a pedestal in the Mausoleum Room ; seven 

 vases, one silver object, and fourteen bronzes have been cleaned and repaired; sixteen 

 tesseree, nineteen inscriptions in bronze, fifty-five gems, and one relief have been 

 moulded ; twenty-one gems have been mounted in silver-gilt settings ; fifty-five gems 

 have been mounted on velvet-covered blocks ; one wooden water-wheel has been 

 repaired and erected ; seven stands have been made for bronze paterae ; one store- 

 cupboard has been made ; three prints and one drawing have been mounted for 

 exhibition ; progress has been made in re-mounting and re-arranging the collections 

 in the First Vase Room, the Fourth Vase Room, and the (new) Etruscan Saloon ; two 

 cases have been fitted and arranged in the Gem Room ; two hundred and fifty-six 

 objects have been registered ; three hundred and two descriptive titles have been 

 written and attached to objects. 



Progress has been made with a Hand-book to the Vases, and with a Catalogue of 

 Greek Sculpture. Sheets 3 A — 3 Y, of Part III., of " Ancient Greek Inscriptions in 

 the British Museum," have been printed ofi". 



II. — Acquisitions. 



By Donation. —l. Bronze vessel, stamped COCCEIORUM. Huelva, South Spain 

 (Archfeologia XLIIL, pi. 39, p. 558). Presented hy S. R. Pattison, Esq. 



II. Bronze tablet, with incised inscription (Bull. dell'Inst., 1865, p. 115). Presented 

 hy C. Drury Fortnum, Esq. 



III. Two lead whorls. Old Cairo. Presented hy G. Frccser, Esq. 



IV. Fictile lekythos, with mouth in the form of a lion's head. The body of the 

 vase is decorated with three bands of figures ; on the handle is a Gorgon's head. 

 The work is of remarkable minuteness and delicacy (Journal of Hellenic Stiulies X., 

 pi. V. ; XL, pll. I., II.). Presented hy Malcolm K. Macmillan, Esq. 



V. — 1. Bronze 



