45.—I. x. 155.
46.—F.P.
47.—Turin.
Some other devices did not profess to cover the whole field, as in Figs. 44 and 45; and sometimes two separate lines of design were superposed, a single element of the same design being found as late as Tahutmes III.
The spiral had thus been greatly developed as a detached ornament for a small surface; but in architecture and furniture it was required as a continuous decoration on borders and on large surfaces. Hence its development was in many ways different, and—so far as we know—later by a whole cycle of history than the development on the scarabs. On those small objects it started in the Vth dynasty, became fully elaborated in the XIIth, is common in the XIIIth, and only very occasionally found in the XVIIIth, disappearing altogether in the XIXth. On walls and furniture it is rare in the XIIth dynasty, becomes usual in the XVIIIth, flourishes in the XIXth and XXth, and is decadent in the XXVIth.
Fig. 48.