37.—F.P.
Others fill up by establishing a repeating pattern, which might be indefinitely multiplied, as — and the difficulty is avoided on a large silver scarab of early date by shortening the links to allow of the connecting line passing the ends.
This difficulty of designing good covering patterns out of true continuous lines probably led to the evasion of introducing false links. Thus what would otherwise have been an opening in the middle was barred across.
38.—I. x. 158.
39.—K. x. 27.
40.—K. x. 48.