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 Decoration. 525 formed by straight lines intersecting one another in every direc- tion, such as lozenges, squares, the tooth-and-dart ornament, etc. ; shapes which, in the following stage, will hold so large a place Fiu. 319.— Stela. Heighl o in., 76. in the linear decoration of Hellas. This reticence on our part is easily grasped. Patterns made up of straight lines are almost unknown to the sculpture, ivories, and jewellery of the really archaic period ; the only instances known to us appear on half-a- dozen or so of vases from Hissarlik {Fig. 228).' Mycenian art had a singular partiah'ty for scrolls and broken lines. In my ' FuRTWANCLER and LOESCHKE, Mykenlscht Vasen.