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Five thousand years of an auspicious mark, from Indus Valley seals to the temple walls of Nara.

The word The four gatis The seal Mohenjo-daro The meander 1940 Everything, in one list

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The meander

A border that runs, in Greece and Rome.

A painted geometric border running around the shoulder of a ceramic vessel, museum light — Greek potters drew it on a grid and Roman workshops laid it by the yard, from Sicily to West Sussex. Four pages on a border that runs, and on what a running border can and cannot tell you.

The meander borderThe Greek key and its variants are drawn on a grid, and the figure appears as one term in that family rather than as a separate emblem.
Geometric AthensThe pottery of the period is named for its ornament, and the ornament is built from repeated right angles.
Piazza ArmerinaA Roman villa floor where the borders run for a great distance without a break, which is a statement about the workshop as much as the pattern.
Fishbourne, West SussexThe same repertoire at the northern edge of the empire, laid by craftsmen working to the same pattern books.

Five thousand years of an auspicious mark, from Indus Valley seals to the temple walls of Nara.

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