Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 156
ing across it; and it was developed in a peculiarlygrotesque fashion, two, and sometimes three, of the sides being prolonged intoungainly and meaningless crooks, as in fig. 56 (No. 10, pi. XV. of the Grammar,) That the Greeks did not lack ingenuity, however, is manifest. I select onespecial… … Fig 58. The structure of this border depends on a locked combination of crooks and S -figures, each with a return of two units, which make a svastika at thecrossing of the lines. With these examples before us of the Greek key, I take up the threadsdropped on a previous page, and discuss once more…
Decoration and ornament
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