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

38 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART

same idea as the torturing design (Hg-
59), but which is less ingenious, and is
still possible as an ornament.

So far we have viewed only the course
of Egyptian design, nor can we travel far
outside of it within these pages. More-
over, as it is dated before any other such
decoration in other countries, it is well to
view its course as a whole without confus-
ing it with the various fragments borrowed
from it by other lands. Yet we may well
turn now to see the beginning of the
course of European decoration at Mykenae,
and observe its close con-
tact with that of Egypt.
The spiral is the main
element of pre-historic
decoration in Greece;
the parallel chains of links
64— s'cbuck. 256. occur almost exactly as
we have already seen them in the pattern