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Decoration. 523 transverse fillet. Similarly, among the finds at Mycenae is an oblong fragment of red breccia, where the tool has graven a series of vertical stripes, metopes, and two semi-circles (Fig. 224). On the other hand, we have spirals in the central band of a glass piece from Menidi ; the two semi-circles or palmette, however, are clumsy and mean (Fig. 225). Finally, the same form returns in its most approved and perfected style in the alabaster frieze from Tiryns, inlaid with pieces of blue glass. Our reproduction (PI. XIII., Fig. r) is after Dr. Dorpfeld. There, too, the central band Is very broad ; and a shallow groove, with a row of rosettes right and left, runs down the middle. I H -O.6B- ,— * 0,43 -i Fic, 226.— PJan of alabHsicr frieze ind section Ihrough ihe oarrowesi pari. Between the palmette or semi-circle and the fillet encircling it there is a spiral, the movement of which recalls that of Fig. 214, from a wall of the same edifice. Inserted in the middle of volutes and rosettes are small round pieces of glass ; whilst rectangular square plaques of this same paste, thickly studded, form the borders.