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THE FOUR LABYRINTHS 109
temple of Hawara, he states 1 that altogether there were
four Labyrinths, and names as the two others a building
with 140 columns at Lemnos, and an elaborate tomb of
Lars Porsena at Clusium. For the last of these he quotes
the archaeologist Varro, and adds that Varro relied on
Etruscan legend. It is possible, therefore, that the word
Labyrinth was here used to represent an Etruscan word
of similar sound. The appearance of Lemnos, too, in such
company is at least a strange coincidence, when we re-
member the old tradition that connects its " Pelasgians "
with the " Tursenoi," or " Tyrrhenians," ! and the in-
scription found in it in the unknown language which
Etruscan scholars connect with Etruscan.5 The pro-
blems suggested by the mention of these two Labyrinths
will be discussed later. It is surprising that they
have not been brought into the present discussion by
either Mr. Evans, Dr. Rouse, or Mr. Hall,' though that
at Clusium has a considerable literature of its own. It is
possible that Kingsley, writing in 1855, got the idea of his
Cretan cavern from the theory, so interestingly discussed
in Dennis's Etruria,6 that the underground cemetery of
Poggio Gaiella, three miles from Clusium, is what Varro
meant by Porsena's tomb.
If we examine Pliny's language closely, we see that in
I Nat. Hist, xxxvi. 13. 3 Thuc. iv. 109; Strabo, 221.
a In spite of Fick, V.O. p. 103, Ridgeway, E.A.G. i., pp. 143-9,
Hall O.C.G. p. 174. Professor Conway informs me that there is
little doubt on the matter, as will be shown by Professor Skutsch's
forthcoming article " Etruskische Sprache " in Pauly-Wissowa,
and by the inclusion of the inscription in the Corpus. Inscr.
Elruscarum. See too Conway's own forthcoming article in
the New Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
4 So C. Fredrich, in Ath. Mitt. xxxi. 1906, p. 77, has nothing
to say about it except that it was perhaps " a Hall of the Mys-
teries built by Peisistratus, like that of Elcusis." If this were
all, why did the hall at Eleusis never get the name itself ?
II 3rd ed. 1883, vol. ii. pp. 345-56. The 1st ed. was published
1848. See too Hiilsen ad voc. Clusium in Pauly-Wissowa, iv. i.
Kingsley's idea is perhaps only due to Cockerell or Hock.
temple of Hawara, he states 1 that altogether there were
four Labyrinths, and names as the two others a building
with 140 columns at Lemnos, and an elaborate tomb of
Lars Porsena at Clusium. For the last of these he quotes
the archaeologist Varro, and adds that Varro relied on
Etruscan legend. It is possible, therefore, that the word
Labyrinth was here used to represent an Etruscan word
of similar sound. The appearance of Lemnos, too, in such
company is at least a strange coincidence, when we re-
member the old tradition that connects its " Pelasgians "
with the " Tursenoi," or " Tyrrhenians," ! and the in-
scription found in it in the unknown language which
Etruscan scholars connect with Etruscan.5 The pro-
blems suggested by the mention of these two Labyrinths
will be discussed later. It is surprising that they
have not been brought into the present discussion by
either Mr. Evans, Dr. Rouse, or Mr. Hall,' though that
at Clusium has a considerable literature of its own. It is
possible that Kingsley, writing in 1855, got the idea of his
Cretan cavern from the theory, so interestingly discussed
in Dennis's Etruria,6 that the underground cemetery of
Poggio Gaiella, three miles from Clusium, is what Varro
meant by Porsena's tomb.
If we examine Pliny's language closely, we see that in
I Nat. Hist, xxxvi. 13. 3 Thuc. iv. 109; Strabo, 221.
a In spite of Fick, V.O. p. 103, Ridgeway, E.A.G. i., pp. 143-9,
Hall O.C.G. p. 174. Professor Conway informs me that there is
little doubt on the matter, as will be shown by Professor Skutsch's
forthcoming article " Etruskische Sprache " in Pauly-Wissowa,
and by the inclusion of the inscription in the Corpus. Inscr.
Elruscarum. See too Conway's own forthcoming article in
the New Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
4 So C. Fredrich, in Ath. Mitt. xxxi. 1906, p. 77, has nothing
to say about it except that it was perhaps " a Hall of the Mys-
teries built by Peisistratus, like that of Elcusis." If this were
all, why did the hall at Eleusis never get the name itself ?
II 3rd ed. 1883, vol. ii. pp. 345-56. The 1st ed. was published
1848. See too Hiilsen ad voc. Clusium in Pauly-Wissowa, iv. i.
Kingsley's idea is perhaps only due to Cockerell or Hock.