Egyptian decorative art : a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution /by W.M. Flinders Petrie (1920)
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942 · London : Methuen · leaf 45
rlier than most of thespiral decorations of surfaces may thusopen our eyes to the meaning of somesuch designs ; and, in general, a close con-tinuous coil returning on itself may wellbe a copy of a strip of sheet metal,doubled, and rolled up. The next stao^e is where continuous lines of spiral… … GEOMETRICAL DECORATION 31 ceiling of Neferhotep, in the XVIIIthdynasty. And in this the far more com-plex quadruple spiral begins to appear, aswe shall see presently. The lines of spirals were not only placedparallel, but were also iViVAVlVAVr^crossed. For some ^/:^reason this type was k-never well…
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