AN ACCOUNT OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



L 1. A fretted fylfot, with square sun in the centre. Mosaic, Newton 

 St. Loe, near Bath. 



2. Normal curvilinear fylfot, with solar duplex in the centre. Mosaic, 



Newton St. Loe. 



3. Fretted fylfot, with lunar crescent in the centre. Pre-Christian 



coin from Crete. 



4-. Shell gorget, solar duplex. Found with other solar symbols in pre- 

 historic grave mounds, Fain's Island, Tennessee. Bureau of 

 Ethnology, 1880-81, p. 270. 



5. Eight-rayed solar glory, fretted, with square central sun. Mosaic, 



Newton St. Loe. 



6. Solar cross, of equal limbs, with a solar duplex in each angle. 



Mosaic, Lincoln. 



II. A. Roman Altar with normal rectilinear fylfot in apposition with lunar 

 crescent. Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland. Art Journal, 

 1875, p. 369. 

 B. Roman Altar with normal rectilinear fylfot in apposition with solar 



disc. Ditto. 



III. 1. Detail from Egyptian Tomb Ceiling. Prisse. Flinders Petrie, 

 Art in Egypt, p. 37. 



2. Detail from pre-Christian Greek Vase. Goodyear. 



3. Detail from mosaic, Dorchester. 



IV. 1. Fylfot isolated from a fret. Mosaic, Brading. 



2. Empanelled fylfot. Mosaic, Silchester. 



3. Ditto. Mosaic, London. A similar one occurs in a Pompeian 



mosaic. 

 V. 1. Fylfot with disc in centre. Detail from a mosaic, Caerwent. 



2. Solar cross, eight- rayed solar disc, solar path, and fylfot constructed 

 of avian heads. Shell gorget, from stone grave, Tennessee. 

 Bureau of Eth., 1880-81, p. 284. 

 VI. 1. Irradiant solar disc, with solar duplex in the centre. Mosaic, 



Dorchester. 



2. Solar -quadruplex. Ditto. 



VII. Solar duplex, tri.quetra, and bind- knot, on a Christian cross. Disley, 

 Cheshire. Romilly Allen, Early Christian Monuments, plate vi. 

 VIII. Christian cross resembling the solar cross shown in Illustration I., 6, 

 with a twisted duplex at the end of each lateral limb, and two 

 peacocks feeding from a vase at its base. S. Pietro, Villanova. 

 End of VIII. century. Cattaneo, p. 208. 



