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REMAINS OF 'CAMP-STOOL FRESCO'
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The other fresco band, of which parts are here restored, shows a
similar border above, here taken to form part of that of the upper zone.
For symmetry's sake, moreover, we are entitled to suppose that another
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band of equal width had been executed beneath this, set below on a similar
triple border. There would have been thus two double bands.
Judging from the evidence supplied by the second band (32 cm. in width),
the height of each double row of subjects was 64 centimetres. Doubling
this and adding 18 more for the total breadth of the three borders,1 the height
of the painted frieze would thus have been 146 centimetres,2 or nearly
a metre and a half. It is to be observed that the borders with a succession
of plain stripes—though in this case they are less numerous—fit on to those
' The borders were exactly 6 cm. in breadth. - Or 4 ft. o£ inches.
333
The other fresco band, of which parts are here restored, shows a
similar border above, here taken to form part of that of the upper zone.
For symmetry's sake, moreover, we are entitled to suppose that another
,\RT ROOKED OVER.
band of equal width had been executed beneath this, set below on a similar
triple border. There would have been thus two double bands.
Judging from the evidence supplied by the second band (32 cm. in width),
the height of each double row of subjects was 64 centimetres. Doubling
this and adding 18 more for the total breadth of the three borders,1 the height
of the painted frieze would thus have been 146 centimetres,2 or nearly
a metre and a half. It is to be observed that the borders with a succession
of plain stripes—though in this case they are less numerous—fit on to those
' The borders were exactly 6 cm. in breadth. - Or 4 ft. o£ inches.