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 6o Primitive Greece: Mvcekian Art. the ornament is similar, but the size of the fragment on which it appears is dissimilar. We shall, then, have to find different places for different fragments. First of all, we must determine the position which these various items occupied in the fa9ade.' We will begin with the triangular void. The fragment of red porphyry which was found in 1878 fits to a nicety the upper angle of the void under notice {PI. IV. m). Carved on its surface are two rows of spirals. From this and Elu, 266.— Tumi. J. rt.igmi:iil.>tiitcor.Miunoffava<.if. another bit of porphyry, adorned in the same style, which assuredly belonged to the same unit, we learn the movement of the design (Ftg. 265 and PI. IV. n). One of the sides is cut obliquely, and must therefore have met the edge of the wall which adjoins the relieving space on the right. Hence we can only suppose that the bands were horizontally placed, and ran parallel to the ground. Another fragment of the same nature is given ^ We met M. Babin— who formed part of the Dieulafoy Mission— at Athens in i8go, when he was good enough to draw for us some of the fragments cited by us, which are preserved in the Central Museum and at Char-ati.