238) or spider-web patterns; some represent open flowers.

The central boss is in relief; the petals and tracery are encrusted in the mass.

These roundels, which are of various diameters ranging from three- eighths of an inch to four inches, were fixed to the walls by means of a very fine cement.

They were used to form many different designs, as scrolls, foliage, and parallel fillets, such as may be seen on the foot of an altar and the base of a column preserved in the Gizeh Museum.

The royal ovals were mostly in one piece; so also were the figures.