Fig. 192.
FRAGMENT OF POTTERY WITH
ROW OF SWASTIKAS IN INTAGLIO.
Necropole Felsinea, Italy. Museo
Bologna. Gozzadini, “Due Sepolcri,”
etc., p. 7. ½ natural size.
Fig. 193.
SWASTIKA SIGN ON
CLAY BOBBIN.
Type Villanova, Bologna.
De Mortillet, “Musée
Préhistorique,” fig. 1239.
[Fig. 193] shows the end view of one of the bobbins from Bologna, Italy, in the possession of Count Gozzadini by whom it was collected. The decoration on the end, as shown by the figure, is the Swastika. The main arms are made up of three parallel lines, which intersect each other at right angles, and which all turn to the right at right angles. The lines are not incised, as is usual, but, like much of the decoration belonging to this culture, are made by little points consecutively placed, so as to give the appearance of a continuous line.
Swastikas turning both ways are on one or both extremities of many terra-cotta cylinders found in the terramare at Coazze, province of Verona, deposited in the National (Kircheriano) Museum at Rome. (See figs. 380 and 381 for similar bobbins.)
The museum at Este, Italy, contains an elegant pottery vase of large dimensions, represented in [fig. 194], the decoration of which is the Greek fret around the neck and the Swastika around the body, done with small nail heads or similar disks inserted in the clay in the forms indicated. This association of the Swastika and the Greek fret on the same object is satisfactory evidence of their contemporaneous existence, and is thus far evidence that the one was not derived from the other, especially as the authorities who claim this derivation are at variance as to which was parent and which, child. (See [fig. 133].)
A Swastika of the curious half-spiral form turned to the left, such as has been found in Scandinavia and also among the Pueblo Indians of the United States, is in the museum at Este.