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CHAPTER II
GEOMETRICAL DECORATION
The Line.
/^~\NK of the simplest and the earliest
^—^ kinds of ornament that we find is the
zio-zao; line, which occurs on the oldest
tombs, 4000 B.C. So simple is this, that
it might be supposed that every possible
variety of it would be soon played out.
Yet, strange to say, two of the simplest
modifications are not found till a couple
of thousand years after the plain zigzag
had been used. The wavy line in curves
instead of angular waves is not found till
the XVIIIth dynasty, or about 1500 B.c. ;
while the zigzag with spots in the spaces
GEOMETRICAL DECORATION
The Line.
/^~\NK of the simplest and the earliest
^—^ kinds of ornament that we find is the
zio-zao; line, which occurs on the oldest
tombs, 4000 B.C. So simple is this, that
it might be supposed that every possible
variety of it would be soon played out.
Yet, strange to say, two of the simplest
modifications are not found till a couple
of thousand years after the plain zigzag
had been used. The wavy line in curves
instead of angular waves is not found till
the XVIIIth dynasty, or about 1500 B.c. ;
while the zigzag with spots in the spaces