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PLATES CIL, CIII. CONTINUED.
them varying from 4 to 6 above the pole, from 4 to 6 (perhaps 8 in one instance, but they are
too faded for certainty) beneath the horses.
Stretching from top to bottom of zone, between each two bigse, except that to the right on
Plate CIL and the one before it, are two pairs of wavy lines, roughly parallel, the space between
filled in by transverse lines, which are sometimes shaded in bands. Above the horses are spaces
decorated in a similar way, i.e., a double wavy line let down in a curve or festoon from the top
of the zone, and the space above filled in with close lines. (A precisely similar decoration, alone
by itself, occupies the shoulder zone of a vase in the Cesnola collection, of one of the forms
shown in Plate XC.)
Above the horses of the biga seen on the right in Plate CIII. is a pair of double wavy
lines with the space between filled in as before, and shaded also in bands, making as it were a
real festoon of tapestry; while a similar decoration extends from the horse's crupper to the
ground, in front of the tails themselves ; also with this biga is found the greatest number of fan-
ornaments beneath the horses and above the chariot pole ; while the chariot walls are distinguished
by conspicuous trefoil ornaments at the corners. Ornaments similar to the fan-shaped decoration
occur as a colored groundwork on the sarcophagus of Amathus, Vol. I., Plates CXLIX., CL.
them varying from 4 to 6 above the pole, from 4 to 6 (perhaps 8 in one instance, but they are
too faded for certainty) beneath the horses.
Stretching from top to bottom of zone, between each two bigse, except that to the right on
Plate CIL and the one before it, are two pairs of wavy lines, roughly parallel, the space between
filled in by transverse lines, which are sometimes shaded in bands. Above the horses are spaces
decorated in a similar way, i.e., a double wavy line let down in a curve or festoon from the top
of the zone, and the space above filled in with close lines. (A precisely similar decoration, alone
by itself, occupies the shoulder zone of a vase in the Cesnola collection, of one of the forms
shown in Plate XC.)
Above the horses of the biga seen on the right in Plate CIII. is a pair of double wavy
lines with the space between filled in as before, and shaded also in bands, making as it were a
real festoon of tapestry; while a similar decoration extends from the horse's crupper to the
ground, in front of the tails themselves ; also with this biga is found the greatest number of fan-
ornaments beneath the horses and above the chariot pole ; while the chariot walls are distinguished
by conspicuous trefoil ornaments at the corners. Ornaments similar to the fan-shaped decoration
occur as a colored groundwork on the sarcophagus of Amathus, Vol. I., Plates CXLIX., CL.