Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green · leaf 58
re com-monly constructed by Eastern gardeners for irrigationalpurposes. (See also Chapter VIII.) Whatever the original purpose and function of theGortyna Cavern may have been, it was certainly a laby-rinth in the extended sense, and no doubt the classicwriters themselves would have had no… … Fig. 7. Cavern of Gortyna. {Sieber) CHAPTER VI THE CRETAN LABYRINTH (continued) (iii) Knossos A few miles to the north-east of Gortyna, and not farsouth of the north coast town of Candia, lay, at the baseof the hill of Kephala, a few ruined walls indicating thesite of the ancient city of Knossos.…
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