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Ii. C. BOSANQUET
The surviving portions of another picture are shown in Figs. 61 and 62.
The former is a seated man (ehest, fore-arms, hands, waist, and knees pre-
served) holding up a piece of drapery (blue with black lines), in Iiis left hand.
He wears a bracelet on each wrist and a belt at his waist, all painted yellow
and probably meant for gold. Below the metal belt is a twisted sash of light
blue, and below that a variegated waist-cloth, blne, red, and yellow, em-
broidered with a design the meaning of which was first made out by the
experieneed eye of M. Gilliuron—two birds placed back to back with wings
outspread. Red is used for the little triangles along the feathors, as well as
for the spiral lines in the bracelets, and for the finger-nails, which were
Fig. 62.—Fragments of Painted Plaster : Arms and Shoulder of a Human Figure.
(1:2.)
perhaps stained in the Oriental fashion. Of the other figure, apparently
male, we have the neck, adorned with a necklace tied in a bow behind, the
Shoulders and the Upper arms ; he was stooping forward with arms close
togethor as if holding out some offering. There are traces of hair on
the neck.
The fragments of the large sea-piece and those with the human figures
have two features in common: both series exhibit a well-preserved red, and
both were painted on a plaster ground which had originally been crimson and
was afterwards covered with a white coating. Possibly they formed a single
picture. In that case the seated man may be handling a net, and the blue
Ii. C. BOSANQUET
The surviving portions of another picture are shown in Figs. 61 and 62.
The former is a seated man (ehest, fore-arms, hands, waist, and knees pre-
served) holding up a piece of drapery (blue with black lines), in Iiis left hand.
He wears a bracelet on each wrist and a belt at his waist, all painted yellow
and probably meant for gold. Below the metal belt is a twisted sash of light
blue, and below that a variegated waist-cloth, blne, red, and yellow, em-
broidered with a design the meaning of which was first made out by the
experieneed eye of M. Gilliuron—two birds placed back to back with wings
outspread. Red is used for the little triangles along the feathors, as well as
for the spiral lines in the bracelets, and for the finger-nails, which were
Fig. 62.—Fragments of Painted Plaster : Arms and Shoulder of a Human Figure.
(1:2.)
perhaps stained in the Oriental fashion. Of the other figure, apparently
male, we have the neck, adorned with a necklace tied in a bow behind, the
Shoulders and the Upper arms ; he was stooping forward with arms close
togethor as if holding out some offering. There are traces of hair on
the neck.
The fragments of the large sea-piece and those with the human figures
have two features in common: both series exhibit a well-preserved red, and
both were painted on a plaster ground which had originally been crimson and
was afterwards covered with a white coating. Possibly they formed a single
picture. In that case the seated man may be handling a net, and the blue