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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1021#0307
SOME PHASES OF MYCENAEAN ART 255
on the ivory mirror-handle (Fig. 82). With these repro-
ductions we may compare the actual semi-column of the
Treasury of Atreus (Fig. 44) with its peculiarly ornate
spiral bands again reminding us of metal-work.1
1 It is indeed argued (Semper, Der Stil, i. 434), that these semi-columns are
simply the translation into stone of wooden pillars covered with richly embossed
plates of metal. This has an air of probability, but were not the rings and
spirals by origin simply actual bands binding together several slender stems to
form the column ?
on the ivory mirror-handle (Fig. 82). With these repro-
ductions we may compare the actual semi-column of the
Treasury of Atreus (Fig. 44) with its peculiarly ornate
spiral bands again reminding us of metal-work.1
1 It is indeed argued (Semper, Der Stil, i. 434), that these semi-columns are
simply the translation into stone of wooden pillars covered with richly embossed
plates of metal. This has an air of probability, but were not the rings and
spirals by origin simply actual bands binding together several slender stems to
form the column ?