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74 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
tectural. On the architecture it is quite
unintelligible, and a mere conventional
monstrosity ; while on a scarab
of green jasper—which from the
style and material seems cer-
tainly to be before the XVIIIth
dynasty, and probably of the
Xllth—there is an already con-
ventionalised lotus group, with the four
sepals and inner petals already developed
into a sort of " tree pattern," and the
lower two sepals have a pendant, partly
worn away, but clearly showing a triply-
branching line like a small lotus flower.
This is the earlier stage of this conven-
tional pendant; but even here, although
the pendant itself is rational, the position
of it is hard to explain. Probably we
must wait for some early scarab to clear
up the real origin of this curious and
puzzling form.
coll.
74 EGYPTIAN DECORATIVE ART
tectural. On the architecture it is quite
unintelligible, and a mere conventional
monstrosity ; while on a scarab
of green jasper—which from the
style and material seems cer-
tainly to be before the XVIIIth
dynasty, and probably of the
Xllth—there is an already con-
ventionalised lotus group, with the four
sepals and inner petals already developed
into a sort of " tree pattern," and the
lower two sepals have a pendant, partly
worn away, but clearly showing a triply-
branching line like a small lotus flower.
This is the earlier stage of this conven-
tional pendant; but even here, although
the pendant itself is rational, the position
of it is hard to explain. Probably we
must wait for some early scarab to clear
up the real origin of this curious and
puzzling form.