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GROUND FLOOR.

Room of Archaic Greek Sculpture. (Fragments from Mycenae-
Sculptures from Branchidae -Friezes from Xanthos-Harpy Tomb
-Strangford Apollo -Casts from Selinus and Aegina.) .

Ante-room. (Statue of the Demeter of Cnidos.)

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LIST OF PLATES.

I. Columns from the façade of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae

(p. 3).

II. Copy of the Athenè Parthenos (p. 22).

III. The Theseus' of the Parthenon (p. 24).

IV. The Three Fates (p. 26).

V. 1. Metope of Parthenon, No. 310 (p. 32).

2. Metope of the Parthenon, No. 317 (p. 34).

VI. Cavalry from the North Frieze of the Parthenon (p. 45).
VII. Attic sepulchral reliefs (p. 62).

VIII. Figure of Mourning Woman (p. 62).

IX. Votive Relief of Artemis Bendis (p. 62).

X. The Restored Order of the Mausoleum (p. 72).

XI. The Chariot group of the Mausoleum (p. 72).

XII. Slabs from the Frieze of the Mausoleum (p. 73).

XIII. The Lion of Cnidos (p. 75).

XIV. Base of Sculptured Column, Temple of Artemis, Ephesus (p. 85).
XV. The Demeter of Cnidos (p. 14).

XVI. 1. Head of a Gaul (p. 78).

2. Bust of Clytiè' (p. 89).

XVII. 1. Head of Julius Caesar (p. 109).

2. Head of the young Augustus (p. 109).

XVIII. Greek Terracottas (p. 122).

XIX. Etruscan Terracotta Sarcophagus (p. 124).
XX. The Portland Vase (p. 128).

XXI. 1. Head of Aphroditè ? (p. 182).

2. Hypnos or Sleep (p. 182).

XXII. Head of Augustus (p. 183).

XXIII. Map of Italy.

XXIV. Map of Greece and Western Asia Minor.

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DEPARTMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM.

PLAN OF GROUND FLOOR.

ME
GRENVILLE

A GUIDE

TO THE

DEPARTMENT

OF

GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES.

Scope of the Guide. The present guide may roughly be described as dealing with such material remains of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome as are in the possession of the Trustees of the British Museum.

To define its scope more precisely several exceptions must be mentioned. Thus, Roman objects found in Britain are kept apart, because their primary interest is as illustrations of an early stage of national history. The coins of all places and periods are most conveniently kept together in the Department of Coins and Medals. The Greek papyri, including works of Hyperides, Aristotle, Herodas, Bacchylides, and others, are grouped with other manuscripts of a later period. Where the streams of later Egyptian and Greek histories mingle, it is impossible to make a complete separation of the two. The glass of all periods is for the most part collected in the Glass and Ceramic Room, and some of the finest pieces of Roman silver plate have been placed in the Early Christian Room. The objects bequeathed by Sir A. Wollaston Franks are for the present kept together, and some fine Greek bronzes are shown in the Waddesdon Bequest Room.

Method of the Guide. The method followed, so far as the arrangement of the collections permits, is that of tracing the historical progress of each class of objects. (A table is annexed to show the mutual relations of the various classes in respect of date.) For convenience in using the Guide, the objects in one room are generally described together, and as far as possible the rooms are described in sequence. Sometimes, however, the visitor is taken through rooms, on his path, to which he is brought back later, to study their contents. Thus, from the Entrance Hall, we pass through the Roman Gallery (p. 108) and Graeco-Roman Rooms (p. 88), and begin with the sculptures in the Archaic Room.

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