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Detail on the main Kylix (drinking cup), along with several colour photographs (non-commercial reuse), can be found on the British Museum database at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=399270&partId=1. The accession number is 1850,0302.3.

Identifier: mazeslabyrinthsg1922matt (find matches)
Title: Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Matthews, William Henry, 1882-
Subjects: Labyrinths
Publisher: London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ig. 39. In the previous chapter we have already referred toan Etruscan vase found at Tragliatella. This was very roughly decorated with incised figures, representing amongst other things a circular labyrinth of the traditional type and some horsemen who are thought to be engaged either in the attack on Troy or in the game known as the Lusus Trojae or Game of Troy. That there can be no doubt about the artists identification of the labyrinth insome way with the celebrated city in question is clear from the word Truia scratched within it (Fig. 133). Representations of the labyrinth were sometimes en-graved on ancient gems, a fine specimen of which is figured in P. A. MarTeis Gemme Antiche (Fig. 40),published in 1707. The Minotaur in this case is shown as a centaur. A similar representation appears on a six-teenth-century bronze plaquette of Italian workmanship exhibited in the Plaquette Room at the British Museum (Fig. 41. See plate, p. 60). Before leaving the subject of the Labyrinth in ancient 52

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