Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 721
of this early example of fretdiaper to that employed by Saracenic artists in Mesopotamia in the thirteenthcentury is remarkable, and it is probable that we have here the inheritance ofan ancient motive which had never completely died out. The fret does notdisappear in the Third and Fourth Periods.… … Fig. 443. Marble ambo of the sixth century in S. Apollinare Nuovo at Kavenna : showingdentils, astragalus, and other mouldings. (Ricci.) of connected swastikas as at Kavenna (Fig. 442), Amida (p. 713), and Saqqara(Quibell, i, PI. XXXI). A tendency to incline the angles of the fret is observedin the…
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