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PAINTED RELIEFS: OLIVE-TREES AND BULL-GRAPPLING 167

ments. The first and second sections would each have been about 4-60
metres or about 15 feet in length, and the third 4-25 metres. The parallel

terrace on the East side
showed divisions correspond-
ing with these.

This triple division, so
approximately exact, will be
seen to have a possible bearing
of great interest on the arrange-
ment of the series of painted
stucco reliefs, which, according
to the clear evidence that has
come down to us, occupied the
backwall of the loggia.

Painted Reliefs from Frieze in
Western Gallery: Remains
of Olive-trees.

These reliefs clearly be-
longed to some great composi-
tion representing bull-catching
or bull-grappling scenes. The
first group of fragments came
to light — about 1-50 metres
beneath the surface level at
this point—in the space in-
cluded by the opening for
the flight of steps by which the
gallery was reached from the
upper part of the roadway.
Here, besides animal pieces,

were considerable parts of the
Fio. 110. Details of Olive Sprays from Fresco ... , , , f

showninFig. 109. (A) (Seetoo Vol.ii, Px.II,p.474-) ohaSe . brancnes ot a

flowering olive-tree, forming

part of the left upper corner of a large panel (Figs. 109 b, 110).1 To harmonize

with the figured reliefs of the composition the lines of the small branches,

including the leafy sprays, are in each case slightly bossed. The leaves

Bull-
grappling
composi-
tions.

1 The horizontal upper line shows a slight
curve forward where it reached the wooden

beam above. The perpendicular border on
the left is also well preserved. It had a