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the motif by elevating it into relief with a slightly 1 Excavated in 1987 (M 9:4); reported: Zhejiang 19883,
bulging median axis. It is in this experiment that 36-37.
2 Zhejiang 19883,14, fig. 23; Zhejiang 1988)3, 36 -37, fig. 9,
they found the potential of transforming the two- pi. 6; Shanghai 1984, 3, color pi. i: 2; Nanjing 1984,117-
dimensional image into a three-dimensional one. 119, pi. 4: 3; for detailed photographic reproductions, see
Consequently, the cong s cross section evolved from Zhejiang 1989, pis. 10,11,14; Shanghai 1992, pi. 88.
3 Nanjing 1982, 29, fig. 6; for a detailed photographic repro-
circular to rectangular. This represented a turning duction, see Zhejiang 1989, pi. 12.
point in the developmental sequence of the cong,
when the emphasis shifted from surface decoration
to formal structure. The cong subsequently grew
much taller and assumed monumental forms, while
the face motifs became noticeably abbreviated.
However, the old form did not die out with the
invention of the new form; indeed, it continued for
a long period, zs

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