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dark blue upon which red was laid for the neck and the greater part of 

 the body. Over the red there are a few whitish stripes. The back- 

 ground is white, and there are no indications of landscape. 



The frame or border, which encloses the design, is a similar blue 

 to that of the enclosed figure, but darker. It was decorated with from 

 three to five narrow white stripes of the same direction as the respective 

 sides. On the under side the border is enlarged by a wide stripe of 

 reddish white, on which there is a pattern consisting of red horizontal 

 lines and inverted T's of the same color. 



At either side of the frame there are narrow uneven strips of white, 

 probably from the background. At a point a little above the center 

 of the stripes, a horizontal red band from the right and another from the 

 left joined, but did not cross, the frame. 



Above the enclosure there is a narrow rectangular top-piece sur- 

 rounded by a dark red border with a line of white about the inner edge. 

 The interior has, on a green ground, designs in white, a bird in the center 

 and at either side, and, in either interval, a plant with large round leaves. 

 The bird in the middle is probably a swan, that at the left may be the 

 same, while the bird at the right is uncertain. Besides the foregoing 

 there are slight and indistinct traces of other plants in white. 



For the place which this piece may have occupied on the wall, 

 cf. p. 156. There is also a similar animal figure in the dado of the wall 

 of a house near the Basilica in Pompeii. 1 



Height, m. 0.608 (= 1 ft. 11.93 in.). Width, m. 0.415 ( = 1 ft. 4.33 in.). 



The panel is in fairly good condition, but it has been broken across, a little above 

 the center, and the colors, especially of the border, are considerably worn and 

 faded. 



FRESCO. 24652. [Plate CXXIL] 



Decorative compartment with border and top-piece. 



The compartment is represented as a room enclosed by a four-sided 

 frame or border. The side-pieces are made up of narrow vertical 

 stripes of dark red, reddish white and green. It is probable that 

 leaves were painted over these stripes, in a lighter shade of green. On 

 the right side there seems to be a rosette. The top has horizontal 

 stripes similar to those of the side-pieces. The bottom is a whitish 

 band, which has three horizontal red lines, besides a very dark red stripe 

 on the upper edge. From the latter depend inverted T's of the same 

 dark shade. On the inside of the frame there is, along either edge, at 

 right and left, a dark green vertical line, from which the ends of dark 

 green leaves project toward the interior. 



1 Zahn, Die schoensten Ornamente, etc.. Vol. i, plate 29. 



