Below: Meander pattern on stairwells in the temple of Apollo at Didyma near Miletos. Favorite image so far. Pallas Athena, Theseus, and the Minotaur, on a bowl painted by Aison. Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional.
Below: Pallas Athena, Theseus, and the labyrinth, on a black-figure cup from the Akropolis in Athens. Athens, National Museum. One of the few things that weren't 'stolen' from the Greeks by the English.
Below: Symbolic labyrinth, on a small oil bottle from Attica.
Below: A late, complicated representation of the labyrinth, framed by meander patterns. Mosaic from a family tomb in Hadrumentum in North Africa.
Below: The labyrinth fresco from the ground-floor corridor of the palace of Knossos: reconstruction. The one next to it: Drawing of the path in the labyrinth fresco.
Below: Labyrinth graffito scratched into a tile on the left gable of the Parthenon, Athens.
Below: Labyrinth on a clay tablet (Cn 1287) from Pylos.
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