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

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NATURAL DECORATION 83

in the XVIIItb-XXth dynasties were also
placed around the water-jars; and hence
a painted pattern of garlands came to be
used on those jars.

In architecture also the garland came
into use, sometimes ^^^111111
carved on the stone pig. 159.

around the columns, sometimes made
in coloured glaze and inlaid in the sur-
face.

Wreaths of lotus
flowers and buds were 4.
also represented around 160.—t.a. ix.

the columns at Tell el Amarna.

The great pectorals, or breast-plates, of
successive strings of flowers and leaves
were prominent in the personal and
religious decoration. The sacred barks
of the gods were adorned with large and
complex breast-plates, probably made of
bronze, gilded and inlaid (L.D. 111. 235).
 
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