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Fig. 43. — PaiiPl of stone col);ir (Latimer colloction). 



Any resemblance of the panel decoration shown in figure 43 to 

 a human head with lateral appendages has wholly vanished. Here 

 the decorated panel a. e. j. p.c b. 



border takes the form 

 of a narrow^ rectangu- 

 lar figure with round- 

 ed ends, slightly 

 curved upward and 

 crossed at regular in- 

 tervals by three paii-s 

 of bars. In each of 

 the intervals there is a 



small pit. two of which {e, e) represent all that remai.is of the eyes, 

 and two {h. h) those constants at tlie extremities of the scroll-like ap- 

 pendages that exist in 

 the figure of the compli- 

 cated 23anel border. 



There remain other 

 designs on panel bor- 

 ders, one (fig. 44"") of a 

 collar in the Trocadero 

 Museum at Paris, and 

 the other (fig. 45) in the 

 T./atimer collection. The 

 outlines of these show 

 important modifica- 

 tions, but these also in 

 reality teach the same 

 morphology as the 

 preceding, viz, that fig- 

 ures on the decorated 

 panel borders are simply 

 highly conventionalized 

 heads with extended lat- 

 eral appendages. 



There is one feature 

 lacking in the figures 

 last mentioned that 

 should be explained. 

 Since the pits which 

 represent the eyes, as we have pointed out, are here absent, it might be 

 supposed that the conventionalized head is also wanting; but if we 

 compare them with the underside of the figure cut in the panel of the 

 Bremen collar (fig. 46), the reason for this lack is apparent. 



44. — ;>tuue collar showing unique decoiatetl panel 

 boidei- (Tiocajeio .Museum). 



All of 



•"The author is indebted to Trof. M. II. Saville for this illustration. 



