Tsuntas, Chrestos: The Mycenaean age: a study of the monuments and culture of pre-homeric Greece (London, 1897)

DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT

173

the men and women on the most ancient Babylonian mon-
uments.1

The flounces, as a rule, run round the skirt horizontally,
though they sometimes describe downward curves starting
at the sides and meeting- in front. (See Fier. 155.)

t • 7 i bounces

Some oi the monuments show distinctly that
these are not of a piece with the body of the garment,
for they are usually

represented as bands Jijmi 7s)

breaking in upon the
pattern, and in one
case (namely, on the
limestone tablet) they,
are rendered in a dif-
ferent color. We can
recall but one in-
stance where the two
bands join on to one
another so as to fill
all the lower part of
the skirt. The jacket
appears to have had
short sleeves, and
doubtless opened in
front, after the pres-
ent fashion. At least,
our lady of the hair-
pin (Kg. 67) wears sa™'H»»Pi'"
her bodice open between the breasts, and a parting line
down the bosom seems to be indicated on the dress of
another woman on a Vaphio gem.

1 Cf. Perrot & Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea, etc., Figs. 124,160-153;
Sophus MUUer, I. c.

Fig. 61
rith Gold Ornament (Grave III.).