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repeats in a ruder form a type much better represented by an object of the E. M. Ill
same kind found at Kouphonisi.1 A quadruple spiraliform design is also taken form^

Decora-
tion.

Fig. 80 a. E. M. Ill Tainted Sherds from North Trench at Gournia (ff.).

over into the round flat bezel of steatite rings (see Fig. 81, 6), otherwise
resembling ivory examples from the ossuary ' tholoi '.

The simple coil as a decorative unit appears early in Egypt and else-
where. On prehistoric painted vases from Egypt it represents an imitation

1 Dummler, Reste vorgriechischer Bevolke- 2 Boyd Hawes, Gournia, PI. XII, 34.
rung auf den Cycladen (Ath. Mitth., 1886), 3 Dawkins, B.S.A., x, p. 199, Fig. 2.
p. 16, Beilage I, 1, p. 25.

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