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 Decoration. precision of the sculpture at Orchomenos is of course to seek in the fresco ; but the forms are identical, be it the narrow edge with parallel strokes, or the series of rosettes and spirals, whence springs an arrow ; proving once more that the Bccotian decorator, like that of the Argolic plain, used the same models, worked on the same patterns. We find a variant of the spiral in the curious heart-shaped ornament which appears whether on the ivory plaques from Menidi, or on mural paintings at Spata {Fig. 219), and many a golden object (Figs. 220-222). The ornament we are discussing is of a somewhat undefined character : a pair of volutes fronting each other constitute the base, and flowing lines bounding its contour approach each other in the middle and conceal the point of