An interesting study of Mycenaean ornamentation has been made by Dr. Riegl,[928] who deals generally with the principles underlying its vegetable motives, and points out that here we first meet with scrolls or continuous bands of foliage applied to a decorative purpose. These motives are peculiar to Greek art, and in Mycenaean design their origin is to be sought. In this way we may regard it as the immediate forerunner of Hellenic art, although its development was temporarily arrested by the Dorian invasion, just as the people who produced it formed the basis of the Hellenic race. The naturalism of Mycenaean ornament, which is seen both in continuous and in isolated patterns, is in marked contrast to the convention of Egypt, where the same motives may be in use. It is not, in short, the motive, but its treatment, which shows the independence of Mycenaean art. There are, again, other patterns, such as the spiral, which cannot be traced in Oriental art, and seem to be purely original, at least as far as concerns the Eastern Mediterranean. Another recent writer, Dr. S. Wide, has noticed that where Mycenaean influence was originally strongest, as in Crete and Rhodes, there its characteristics were most strongly impressed upon the art of the succeeding period, and he is inclined to place the centre of the fabric in these islands or on the coast of the adjoining continent of Asia. At all events the Mycenaean influence shows itself more in the pottery of the islands than it does in Attica; and, in Crete and Rhodes in particular, instances have been found of undoubted survivals of typical Mycenaean ornaments in later pottery.[929] ----- Footnote 820: See _Cyprus Mus. Cat._ p. 14. Footnote 821: Cf. Perrot, _Hist. de l’Art_, iii. figs. 487–93. Footnote 822: Cf. Perrot, _op. cit._ iii. figs. 498–503. Footnote 823: See Hall, _Oldest Civilisation of Greece_, p. 72. Footnote 824: See _Athen. Mitth._ xi. p. 249 ff., and Perrot, _Hist. de l’Art_, vi. p. 648. A fragment of late Bronze-Age Cypriote pottery was found at Hissarlik (Dörpfeld, _Troja und Ilion_, i. p. 286, fig. 182). Footnote 825: See Meursius, _Cyprus_, i. chap. 20; Heuzey, _Cat. des Fig. ant. du Louvre_, p. 115. Footnote 826: Strabo, xiv. 6, p. 683. Footnote 827: _Archaeologia_, xlv. p. 127 ff. Footnote 828: Similar red polished wares were found in the New-Race tombs of Egypt (seventh to tenth dynasty), but in spite of the likeness it cannot be said that one is borrowed from the other (_Cyprus Mus. Cat._ p. 16). Footnote 829: See Hall, _Oldest Greek Civilisation_, p. 69; _Journ. Hell. Stud._ xi. pl. 14; _Cyprus Mus. Cat._ p. 38. Footnote 830: The resemblance to Italian bucchero ware is probably only accidental. See Chapter XVIII. Footnote 831: _E.g._ A 66 in B.M. Footnote 832: Hall, _Oldest Civilisation_, pp. 72, 98. Footnote 833: _E.g._ B.M. A 67–8. Footnote 834: Cf. _Excavations in Cyprus_, pp. 34 ff., 72.