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Payne, Humfry
Necrocorinthia: a study of Corinthian art in the Archaic period — Oxford, 1931

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FLORAL ORNAMENTS 151

of details, to the very early antefixes of the type shown in fig. 106.1 Ornaments
of this type are not found on Corinthian vases: palmette complexes are, it is

D E

Fig. 57. a, cf. no. 747; b, cf. no. 557; c, cf. no. 560 a; D, cf. no. 889; E, cf. no. 1461.

Fig. 58. a-b, Protocorinthian (see note 7, p. 150); c, cf. no. 633; d, cf. no. 776 and note 2, p. 152; e-f,

see note 3, p. 152.

true, a favourite motive with Corinthian artists, but in Corinthian examples the
principle of construction is different, and the palmettes, not the connecting
links, are always the dominant element. This evidently represents a later
stage of development. Fig. 5 shows a Protocorinthian complex2 which
resembles a common early Corinthian type in construction, though not in

1 On these v. infra, p. 252; cf. also the ornament
on the Protocorinthian oinochoe no. 34.

On the vase, see pp. 10-11.
 
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