Petrie, William M. Flinders: Egyptian decorative art: a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution (London, 1895)

GEOMETRICAL DECORATION

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and complex zigzag patterns are shown
which are evidently copied from textiles,
as we shall see further on in the chequer
patterns.

The use of spots for filling in corners was

foreign to the Egyptian. We first find it in the

garments of the Amu, or people of northern

Arabia, in the Xllth dynasty. Till then a spot

is never seen, except for the centre of a square;

but the Amu dresses E^Jl mmms M

are covered with spots jjk,^-;: \ir

in every space, and IJL1 ll:«

even aloncr the bars s ,■ %,'f,.,

o o. —ail. ciyn. Ainu uiobb.

and stripes of colour. The same is seen on
the later dresses of the Amu in the XlXth
dynasty, and also in the ^^Cj^^^SM.
dress of the Phoenicians, 7-—xvm., Reft dress.

CM. cxcl.

or Keft people. It re-

curs on the foreign vases s.—xx.Vase, cm. cdix.
probably brought in from the ./Egean ; and
it is only found in Egyptian products