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BARBOTINE OUTLINES IMITATED IN THE FLAT 131
Its white dotted decoration, moreover, coupled in its central section
with a kind of ' herring-bone' ornament, coloured of a bright Indian red,
distinctly shows the reflection of the earlier ' barbotine' technique. The
' herring-bone' pattern
is, indeed, of specially
common occurrence in
the ridged decoration of
that style. The hatched
band on thebase—white
on the black ground—
has a special chrono-
logical value, since an
, ,.. , ,,.-■%■ ornamental band with
w/l .^,'^Hpl^. 39r similar cross-hatching
V? RV _^^B@!|--' ■ "'^mH^'''■ occurs on one of the
^J^^^B ^ft^?'; adB& painted sherds from
Harageh,1 in a deposit
which has been ascer-
tained to date round
about 1900 B.C.2
Thebridge-spouted
pot completed in Fig.
993 shows—like the pre-
ceding example—Indian
red and creamy-white
decoration on a black glaze ground. Otherwise the patterns within the
' medallions ' of its circumference are quite unexampled. The two broad
horizontal bands that traverse these are provided in each case with large
thorn-like excrescences, both turning their points to the right, and presenting
a curiously bizarre appearance.
That their origin is to be traced to some antecedent feature in the history
of ceramic ornament must nevertheless be inferred. Might not these excres-
cences really be clue to a profile rendering of the thorn-like bosses often
visible in the earliest ' barbotine' decoration, and which in themselves have
been shown to derive from similar prickly protuberances on the outer shell of
certain marine creatures like the ' thorny oyster' and the ' thorn-back crab' ?
1 P. ofM., ii, Pt. I, p. 2t2, Fig. 119,/;. Egypt, Twentieth Year, 1923).
2 Ibid., p. 211 seqq. : cf. R. Engelbach, 3 Found in the same basement as PI. XXIX,
Harageh (British School of Archaeology in Fig. b.
K 2
Bridge-
spouted
pot.
Fig. 99.
Bridge-Spouted Pot (restored) with Thorn-
like Decoration.
Barbo-
tine
excres-
cences
shown in
profile.
Its white dotted decoration, moreover, coupled in its central section
with a kind of ' herring-bone' ornament, coloured of a bright Indian red,
distinctly shows the reflection of the earlier ' barbotine' technique. The
' herring-bone' pattern
is, indeed, of specially
common occurrence in
the ridged decoration of
that style. The hatched
band on thebase—white
on the black ground—
has a special chrono-
logical value, since an
, ,.. , ,,.-■%■ ornamental band with
w/l .^,'^Hpl^. 39r similar cross-hatching
V? RV _^^B@!|--' ■ "'^mH^'''■ occurs on one of the
^J^^^B ^ft^?'; adB& painted sherds from
Harageh,1 in a deposit
which has been ascer-
tained to date round
about 1900 B.C.2
Thebridge-spouted
pot completed in Fig.
993 shows—like the pre-
ceding example—Indian
red and creamy-white
decoration on a black glaze ground. Otherwise the patterns within the
' medallions ' of its circumference are quite unexampled. The two broad
horizontal bands that traverse these are provided in each case with large
thorn-like excrescences, both turning their points to the right, and presenting
a curiously bizarre appearance.
That their origin is to be traced to some antecedent feature in the history
of ceramic ornament must nevertheless be inferred. Might not these excres-
cences really be clue to a profile rendering of the thorn-like bosses often
visible in the earliest ' barbotine' decoration, and which in themselves have
been shown to derive from similar prickly protuberances on the outer shell of
certain marine creatures like the ' thorny oyster' and the ' thorn-back crab' ?
1 P. ofM., ii, Pt. I, p. 2t2, Fig. 119,/;. Egypt, Twentieth Year, 1923).
2 Ibid., p. 211 seqq. : cf. R. Engelbach, 3 Found in the same basement as PI. XXIX,
Harageh (British School of Archaeology in Fig. b.
K 2
Bridge-
spouted
pot.
Fig. 99.
Bridge-Spouted Pot (restored) with Thorn-
like Decoration.
Barbo-
tine
excres-
cences
shown in
profile.