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18 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
spiral, how it could go two ways at once,
or which line it was to take — all these
difficulties suggest ffoat the theorist's soul
was on a remarkable spiral.
The subject of spirals fall into two
groups. The older group by far arc the
scarabs, which contain spirals on a limited
and small field ; the other group are those
continuous patterns on ceilings, furniture,
&c, which are capable of indefinite ex-
tension by repetition. As the scarabs
are far the older examples, there is a
presumption that spirals may have even
originated on scarab designs ; and the
hesitating and simple manner of the
oldest instances on scarabs indeed seems
as if the engravers were merely filling a
space, and not copying any
well-known pattern. The
earliest that can be cer-
ii.—K.p. coii. tainly dated is one of
spiral, how it could go two ways at once,
or which line it was to take — all these
difficulties suggest ffoat the theorist's soul
was on a remarkable spiral.
The subject of spirals fall into two
groups. The older group by far arc the
scarabs, which contain spirals on a limited
and small field ; the other group are those
continuous patterns on ceilings, furniture,
&c, which are capable of indefinite ex-
tension by repetition. As the scarabs
are far the older examples, there is a
presumption that spirals may have even
originated on scarab designs ; and the
hesitating and simple manner of the
oldest instances on scarabs indeed seems
as if the engravers were merely filling a
space, and not copying any
well-known pattern. The
earliest that can be cer-
ii.—K.p. coii. tainly dated is one of