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(Fig. 256).1 It represents in fact a series of mazes executed in the same
dark reddish brown colour as appears in the veining of the dado, on Egyptian
a yellowish ground. We see here a more elaborate development of the types of
key and meander patterns that have been noted above on ivory and other Meander

Fig. 256. The Labyrinth Fresco.

seals of the Third Early Minoan Period,- and which have been there
brought into connexion with similar motives on Egyptian schist seals and
plaques of the Vlth Dynasty and immediately ensuing period. In a tomb

1 See XooKnossos, Report, 1902, pp. 103, 104, indication that we have not here to do with
and Fig. 62. The fact that the remains of this ceiling decoration,
fresco were found face upwards is a clear 2 See above, p. rii, Fig. 90.