The palaces of Crete and their builders . rt worn by the woman resembles thaton a modern fashion-plate, and is important for the study offeminine attire. At Hagia Triada Professor Halbherr found more than halfof one of the great double axeswhich were mounted on longshafts and carried in the religiousceremonies, or set up on pyra-midal bases in the sanctuary.^ To speak of Crete and ofMinos without referring to theLabyrinth would be inexcusableforgetfulness. At Knossos Ibought from a peasant a silvercoin bearing the device of theLabyrinth. It is a quadrangularfigure formed of complicatedlines, w
The palaces of Crete and their builders . rt worn by the woman resembles thaton a modern fashion-plate, and is important for the study offeminine attire. At Hagia Triada Professor Halbherr found more than halfof one of the great double axeswhich were mounted on longshafts and carried in the religiousceremonies, or set up on pyra-midal bases in the sanctuary.^ To speak of Crete and ofMinos without referring to theLabyrinth would be inexcusableforgetfulness. At Knossos Ibought from a peasant a silvercoin bearing the device of theLabyrinth. It is a quadrangularfigure formed of complicatedlines, which weary the eye if one attempts to follow them. It was the emblem of Knossos, butthe famous Labyrinth has not yet been discovered. Herodotus was the first historian to mention the Labyrinthin the city which the Greeks called Crocodilopolis. The legendof the Labyrinth probably originated in an erroneous idea as tothe object of the Egyptian constructions of the Xllth Dynasty. Herodotus, who had seen the ruins of these buildings, alludes. FIG. 89/). — MOULD FOR CASTIXGIX BROXZE THE FIGURE OF AWOMAX HOLDIXG TWO AXES. xviii. pi. ii.), and at Plemmirio (ibid. xvii. pi. x.). Axes, so thin that theycould not have been used for any kind of work, and were probably sacred axeslike those in Crete, have been found at Bologna and in many other partsof Italy. Rendiconti R. Accudcmia del Lincei, I9°5i ^^- ^^- P- 3^3- 200 PALACES OF CRETE AND THEIR BUILDERS to the fable of the Labyrinth, and says they were great reservoirsfor the waters of the Nile. After four thousand years theEnglish have reconstructed the system of cataracts and canalsand doubled the value of the land, for the waters of the Nilenow render fertile the ground which was till now barren. As the Labyrinth has not been found, the explanation givenby Mr. Rouse i is most probable. Everywhere on the walls ofKnossos we find the sculptured double axe, labris in the Carianlanguage—and so the name of the house of the double axe w
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