[Illustration: Fig. 137. TORUS OF COLUMN WITH SWASTIKAS. Roman ruins,
Algeria. Waring, "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," pl. 43, fig. 2, quoting
from Delamare.]
Waring, in his "Ceramic Art in Remote Ages," discoursing upon the
Swastika, which he calls fylfot, shows in pl. 43, fig. 2 (quoting from
Delamare), the base of a column from a ruined Roman building in Algeria
(fig. 137), on the torus of which are engraved two Swastikas, the arms
crossing at right angles, all ends bent at right angles to the left. There
are other figures (five and six on the same plate) of Swastikas from a
Roman mosaic pavement in Algeria. Instead of being square, however, or at
right angles, as might ordinarily be expected from mosaic, they are ogee.
In one of the specimens the ogee ends finish in a point; in the other they
finish in a spiral volute turning upon itself. The Swastika has been found
on a tombstone in Algeria.[168]