Egyptian decorative art

by W. M. Flinders Petrie

LONDON

First Published October 1895

Second Edition 1920

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
SOURCES OF DECORATION
	PAGE
EGYPTIAN TASTE FOR DECORATION	[1]
DECORATIVE WRITING OF HIEROGLYPHS	[3]
ORIGIN OF PATTERNS	[5]
PROBABILITY OF COPYING	[6]
GEOMETRICAL ORNAMENT	[9]
NATURAL ORNAMENT	[10]
STRUCTURAL ORNAMENT	[10]
SYMBOLIC ORNAMENT	[11]
CHAPTER II
GEOMETRICAL DECORATION
THE LINE AND ZIGZAG	[12]
THE SPOT	[15]
THE WAVE	[16]
THE SPIRAL	[17]
THE CONTINUOUS SPIRAL	[21]
SPIRAL SURFACE PATTERNS	[28]
QUADRUPLE SPIRALS	[31]
FRETS	[35]
GREEK SPIRALS	[38]
SPIRAL BORDERS	[40]
CHEQUERS	[44]
STITCH PATTERNS	[46]
CIRCLES	[47]
CHAPTER III
NATURAL DECORATION
FEATHERS	[50]
ROSETTES	[56]
DISC AND SPOT PATTERNS	[60]
LOTUS FLOWER	[62]
LOTUS BORDERS	[64]
LOTUS PLANT	[66]
LOTUS DEVELOPMENT	[68]
LOTUS, ASSYRIAN AND GREEK	[72]
LOTUS WITH PENDANT	[73]
PAPYRUS	[75]
LOTUS AND PAPYRUS COLUMNS	[76]
THE PALM	[78]
THE VINE	[79]
THE CONVOLVULUS	[81]
THE THISTLE	[82]
GARLANDS	[82]
CAPTIVES	[85]
THE IBEX	[87]
BIRDS	[87]
STARS	[88]
GRAINING AND MARBLING	[89]
CHAPTER IV
STRUCTURAL DECORATION
STRUCTURAL FORMS SURVIVING	[91]
ROPE PATTERN	[92]
BASKET-WORK	[93]
WOODEN FRAMING	[94]
PANELLING	[95]
SLOPING WALLS	[96]
TORUS ROLL	[97]
PALM CORNICE	[98]
PAPYRUS CORNICE	[101]
BINDING PATTERNS	[103]
CHAPTER V
SYMBOLIC DECORATION
THE URAEUS	[107]
THE DISC AND WINGS	[108]
THE HORNS	[110]
THE VULTURE	[111]
THE SCARAB	[111]
THE LION	[112]
THE GODDESS MAAT	[114]
THE GODDESS HATHOR	[114]
THE GOD BES	[115]
HIEROGLYPH SYMBOLS	[116]
CAPTIVES	[122]
INDEX	[123]

ABBREVIATIONS

C. M. Champollion, Monuments.

Duem. Duemichen Hist. Inschr.

F. P. coll. Flinders Petrie collection.

Goodyear. Grammar of the lotus.