. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. F ? EggS Fig. 3.—Egyptian Labyrinth. Restored Plan. (Canina.)\ nomes, which would have been about twenty-two innumber at the time of the Xllth Dynasty, but it is per-haps more probable that it was intended as a sepulchralmonument. In any case it is plain, from the fragments ofvarious gods and goddesses found on the site, that it wasa centre of worship of a great variety of deities. From an almost illegible inscription on a great weather-beaten block of granite, deciphered, with great difficulty, T5 as a dedication by
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. F ? EggS Fig. 3.—Egyptian Labyrinth. Restored Plan. (Canina.)\ nomes, which would have been about twenty-two innumber at the time of the Xllth Dynasty, but it is per-haps more probable that it was intended as a sepulchralmonument. In any case it is plain, from the fragments ofvarious gods and goddesses found on the site, that it wasa centre of worship of a great variety of deities. From an almost illegible inscription on a great weather-beaten block of granite, deciphered, with great difficulty, T5 as a dedication by a King Ptolemy to a Queen Cleopatra,Professor Petrie concluded that as late as the beginningof the second century the building was still in royal Lriiniriiriirii. ® ® ® ® ® ®® ® ® ®® @ ® ®® ® ® ®® ® ®®®®®®®®®®®<$®®®. • • • • • • • • ?TT- • • • • • • • • TT- • • • • • • • • JuL. Fig. 4.—Egyptian Plan of Western Half. (Flinders Petrie.) care, but not very long afterwards it was considerablydespoiled. Whatever may have been its original object,it afforded several generations the advantages of a mostconvenient CHAPTER IV THE CRETAN LABYRINTH (i) The Story of Theseus and the Minotaur Charles Kingsley in The Heroes and NathanielHawthorne in Tanglewood Tales have familiarisedmost English-speaking people with the story of the ex-ploits of Theseus, and doubtless most folk have someacquaintance with the first volume of Plutarchs Lives,but it will not be out of place here to recall the portionsof the legend which are associated with our particulartheme, the parts, that is to say, which concern the Laby-rinth of Crete. In doing so we will follow the versiongiven by Plutarch. This Greco-Roman historian flourished in the latt
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