Usually, they bear ornamental decoration on the neck, followed by figural motifs on the shoulder, then a further ornamental band, an animal frieze and a ring of rays.
22.
In the course of its further manufacture, the Berlin Hat was embellished with rows of radial ornamental bands, tree resin and wax-in the Schifferstadt specimen, traces of this survived.
23.
In the course of their further manufacture, the Golden hats were embellished with rows of radial ornamental bands, tree resin and wax-in the Schifferstadt specimen, traces of this have survived.
24.
This weakness was even more apparent in the evangelist'portraits', where the ornamental bands of the Sainte-Chapelle Gospels are degraded into decorative garrulity, and there is so little weight and structure under the draperies that they might be covering mere inanimate cushions ."
