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 522 Primitive Greece: Mvcenian Art. junction. We have here inflections and balancing of lines which are not devoid of grace. The palmette, for which the decorator seems to have had a special liking, returns on a Mycenian ivory. Here the palmette is enframed in a narrow plaque, edged top Flc. 2*3. — Ivory jilarjue. Leiiglli o in., 113 ; heighl o m., 17. and bottom, a vertical band dividing it into two halves, which form semi-elliptical circles. " The composition chosen by the archaic artist," writes Dr. Dorpfeld, "has a superficial resem- blance to the irigiyphs and metopes of a Doric building, whether we meet it in pre -Homeric palaces or tombs." Nowhere, Fi::, 224.— Fragment of Triete. About one-finh of actual siie. perhaps, are these points more distinctly brought out than in an ivory plaque from Mycense (Fig. 223). The essential charac- teristics are everywhere the same ; differences bear on minor points alone. The vertical band of the Mycenian plaque is furrowed by horizontal stripes ; this order is reversed on the