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GEOMETRICAL DECORATION 13
is equally late, and is generally foreign to
Egypt.
zigzag line is used ^^^^^ff!^
down to late times, but generally with
variety in colour to give it interest. From
the earliest times this was symmetrically
doubled, so as to give a row of squares
with parallel borders ; -
Zag borders in alter- 2._IV. dyD., Mery, Louvre.
nate light and dark colours.
This same type lasted on-
ward to the XlXth dynasty
(belt Ramessu II. c.m.x.), and
is found, with the addition
of spots in the outer angles,
in the foreign dress of Shekh
Absha, at Benihasan, in the
Xllth dynasty.
A later stage was to repeat the squares
3-—V. dyn.,
Ptah-hotep,
Pcrrot XIII.
is equally late, and is generally foreign to
Egypt.
zigzag line is used ^^^^^ff!^
down to late times, but generally with
variety in colour to give it interest. From
the earliest times this was symmetrically
doubled, so as to give a row of squares
with parallel borders ; -
Zag borders in alter- 2._IV. dyD., Mery, Louvre.
nate light and dark colours.
This same type lasted on-
ward to the XlXth dynasty
(belt Ramessu II. c.m.x.), and
is found, with the addition
of spots in the outer angles,
in the foreign dress of Shekh
Absha, at Benihasan, in the
Xllth dynasty.
A later stage was to repeat the squares
3-—V. dyn.,
Ptah-hotep,
Pcrrot XIII.