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Fig. 40. — Pani;! of stone collar (Latiint'i* collfCtion). 



We pass now in our comparison to a collar (fig. 41) in which the 

 face on the panel border is divided medialh^ into two parts, and the 



remainder of the 

 *• /• '':"■ .' figures, especially 



the lateral scrolls, 

 have undergone a 

 strange elongation. 

 The simple pits rep- 

 resenting eyes still 

 remain, and each of 

 tlie halves of the 

 former head is con- 

 tinued into an extension curved into a scroll in which the only recog- 

 nizable feature is the jointed organ. 



Another variation in the figure on the decorated panel border 

 (fig. 42) occurs in another of the Latimer collars. The vertical 

 division between the eyes separating the face into halves has not 

 extended wholly across the head, and the forehead here remains un- 

 divided. The scroll- 

 like lateral append- 

 ages (pa) that make 

 up the remainder of 

 the figure of the dec- 

 orated panel border 

 have no exceptional 

 features. 



In still another 



collar of the Lati- I"'«- ^l-Pnnel „t ston.. collar (Bromcu Museum). 



mer collection, the conventionalization of the panel border figure has 

 proceeded so far that the resemblance to a head with lateral append- 

 ages is completely lost. Here we have simply two scrolls with one 

 extremity of each approximated and their distal ends widely sepa- 

 rated and extended. 



In another collar of the Latimer collection the decoration of the 



panel has been subject- 

 ed to further modifica- 

 tion in form, the panel 

 figure taking the form 

 of two i-ectangles rep- 

 resenting the half- 

 circles of the divided 

 face, each l)earing a pit 

 representing an eye. 

 The elbow-like scrolls are present with their terminal dots rising 

 one on each side of the rectangle representing half of the face. 



Fio. 42. — Panel af stone collar (Latimer collection). 



