. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. at between Theseus and the Minotaur, within aframed square, the remainder of the mosaic consistingof a complicated interlaced meander representing thelabyrinth. In Fig. 35 is reproduced from A. de CaumontsAbecedaire dArcheologie a rough sketch of theRoman baths at Verdes (Loir-et-Cher), showing a pave-ment with a labyrinth mosaic, A pavement found in 1830 at Cormerod, in the Can-ton of Friburg, Switzerland, is shown in Fig. 36. A fewyears afterwards another was brought to light in theneighbouring Canton of Vaud, from
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. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. at between Theseus and the Minotaur, within aframed square, the remainder of the mosaic consistingof a complicated interlaced meander representing thelabyrinth. In Fig. 35 is reproduced from A. de CaumontsAbecedaire dArcheologie a rough sketch of theRoman baths at Verdes (Loir-et-Cher), showing a pave-ment with a labyrinth mosaic, A pavement found in 1830 at Cormerod, in the Can-ton of Friburg, Switzerland, is shown in Fig. 36. A fewyears afterwards another was brought to light in theneighbouring Canton of Vaud, from beneath the ruinsof the ancient town of Orbe. A splendid mosaic labyrinth of Roman times wasfound some forty or fifty years ago on a family tomb inthe ancient necropolis of Susa, Tunis (Hadrurnetum). Itwas afterwards destroyed by looters, but a careful drawingof it was fortunately made on its first discovery (Fig. 37).The whole mosaic measured about seventeen feet byten, and contained a very finely executed labyrinth offour paths, like the Harpham and Caerleon examples 48. Fig. 34. Mosaic at Caerleon, Mon. (O Morgan, in Proc. Mon.and Caerleon Ant. Assn, 1866)
