Marbling
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The West House
Room 5, north wall
H: 0.45 / L: 4.10
West House
Room 5,
West wall, H. 0.45 / L. 3.90 m.
North wall, H. 0.45 / L. 4.10 m.
These wavy bands of alternating colours imitate marble. This technique once decorated the lower portions of rooms 4 and 5 of the West House. Artists also imitated wood, by using vertical strips of yellow ochre thus simulating the wooden frames of windows.
