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Fig. 36. Pig. 37. 



No. 299. 



No. 22,388. 



No. 22,8Cfi. 



Fig. 39. 



Fig. 40. 



Fi S . 41. 



No. 301. No. 22,379. 



Fig. 42. 



No. 22,370. 



No. 22,374. 



Fig. 43. 



Fig. 44. 



No. 809. 



No. 300. 



No. 299. 



In No. 22,356, Fig. 45, we have the simplest form of the shallow bowl modi- 

 fied by the introduction of new designs, and the presence of faces in relief. Mid- 

 way between the faces is seen a narrow panel with a zigzag ornament, on each 



No. 22,356 Bowl of Luiui tcrra-cotta. 



side of which is a line of small rings or circles. On the inner surface this figure 

 is found, nearly behind the faces, the intervening panels having the peculiar 

 figure I repeated three times on each side. The zigzag is found on eight pieces. 

 As elsewhere, no rigid adherence to pattern is observed ; but irregularities, 

 apparently the result of carelessness, mark the execution. This is shown in Fig. 

 46, where the angles are only two on a side, while there arc eight circles. Be- 

 tween two of the three lines of the zigzag the decoration is enriched by horizontal 

 black lines and red surfaces. In No. 22,317, from which the illustration was 

 taken, this occurs on opposite sides, painted in the same direction ; that is, with 

 extra coloring between the middle and right line. In Figs. 47 and 48 the shading 

 is in opposite directions on the same bowls. On each of these two specimens the 

 figure is found twice on the outside. In No. 22,381 it occurs twice on the inside, 

 and in 22,388 three times within and twice outside. The circles in these panels 



