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[Chid12]

In Chapter 4, the old six said: "In order to escape their sight, we chose places where sports, games, festivals and other special events often occur."

So the places to train aren't places in the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of big cities - only in large cities do you really find sports, games, festivals and special events occurring often.

Surely the best place for athletes to train would be in cities hosting that have hosted, or are hosting the Olympics? Not only would there already be loads of facilities, sporting grounds and stadia, but they'd blend in with all the other athletes around and no-one would think twice. If the locations used by the old six include Helsinki, Rome and Stockholm - all citites capable of hosting the Olympics - then this support the theory.

So that's where the labyrinths in Chapter 4 need to be built: in large cities, cities capable of hosting the Olympic Games.

[Isaac Dodgson]

[brodie]

[brodie]

(apologies for the double post, but that was more a consolidation post than any real theories. this can be considered my real post.)

You know, I was thinking about Jasper's guess of the Temple of Poseidon.

[Gerri]

I thought the Parthenon might fit, previously, until I noticed that the design of the columns along the bottom doesn't fit. And then I went to look up the five different orders of columns on Wiki and found that the bottom of those columns in the drawing doesn't seem to match *any* of those orders. So, is this embellishment on the artist's part and that squarish part on the bottom is actually a lot lower (which might fit the Corinthian order), or do the bottoms of those columns not actually look like that in real life??

[jasper]

Do those columns really look Corinthian to you? Are you looking at the high resolution image? And seeing something leafy at the top?

They don't really look Doric either, but at this point I trust the sketch artist to include details like leaves or rosettes that should be on Corinthian capitals. I'm thinking the entablature might be a big hint to this one: it's very plain. And the background- what are we looking at through there- trees to the left side? I doubt that this is part of a building facade. A colonnade? With hybridized columns.

For the statue, I've been looking in London at Isaac Dodgson's suggestion. This statue on the Holborn Viaduct, South Parapet has the hat, the hair and the dress, but there isn't enough info in the photo. http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/images/nrpCL/clcol172c.jpg

[brodie]

[Chid12]

There's another photo of the Commerce statue on the Holburn viaduct here:

http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd734374.jpg

I don't think that's it. In Chapter 4, the statue isn't connected to anything, it stands alone. The Commerce statue is linked to the bridge and there's no coat of arms on the plinth.

[AC07]

[jasper]

[brodie]

[Gerri]

[Gerri]

[jasper]

Narrow the search to Olympic host cities on a coast? Whatever we are looking at in that sketch is hidden in plain sight.