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Tell Rifa'at Labyrinth Pottery is a labyrinth installation in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. The design is a classical 7circuit layout with 7 circuits, 8 walls, built of clay. Documented age: ~1200 BCE (disturbed context) (~1200 BCE (disturbed context)). Current condition: intact. Labyrinth-decorated pottery fragments from Tell Rifa'at, the ancient city of Arpad in northern Syria — a powerful Aramaean city-state conquered by Tiglath-Pileser III in 740 BCE. Documentation sources: Saward 2003, Kern 2000. The labyrinth pattern occurs nowhere in nature; every documented instance traces back to a human hand. The labyrinth is one of several hundred sites of this type catalogued globally; each preserves the same unicursal walking-pattern with regional variation in scale, material, and date.
The labyrinth tradition spans at least 4,000 years of documented practice across northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the British Isles, North America, and the Indian subcontinent.