Roman graffiti artist Banksii Pompeiius has been at work on the outside of the Roman building, although, as the design was painted and not scratched, its really dipinti rather than graffiti. His labyrinth is just one short line away from being a unicursal maze (ie. one that only has a single solution). Was this deliberate or accidental? We will never know. Spookily the House of the Lucretii in Pompeii has suffered from almost exactly the same graffiti, showing how popular the Cretan story of Daedalus, King Minos and the Minotaur was in the Roman world. Some Greek coins from Knossos proudly displayed a (unicursal) labyrinth design on one side. Icarus wouldn’t have had a problem with beeswax this summer, but icing on the wings might have been an issue.


