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THE SOURCES OE DECORATION n
often of the greatest historical value as
pointing to a condition of things that has
since vanished.
Lastly, there is symbolic ornament.
Some now claim most decoration as having
some symbolic or religious meaning; of
that I shall say nothing, as it is but an
hypothesis. But there is no question of the
symbolical intention of many constantly
repeated ornaments in Egyptian work, as
the globe and wings, the scarab, or the
various hieroglyphs with well-known mean-
ings which are interwoven into many
designs.
often of the greatest historical value as
pointing to a condition of things that has
since vanished.
Lastly, there is symbolic ornament.
Some now claim most decoration as having
some symbolic or religious meaning; of
that I shall say nothing, as it is but an
hypothesis. But there is no question of the
symbolical intention of many constantly
repeated ornaments in Egyptian work, as
the globe and wings, the scarab, or the
various hieroglyphs with well-known mean-
ings which are interwoven into many
designs.