tholos

In summary, recent scholarship rarely aims to clarify secondary burial terminology and associated mortuary practices in chamber tombs and tholoi using bioarchaeological methods applied to legacy data.

Moreover, there was a shift in the techniques used, with the appearance of tholoi: stone masonry built passage graves with corbel dome chambers.

The consecrated dome in Western architecture can be traced back to corbelled Myceneaen beehive tombs, then forward to Greek tholoi, the Roman Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, the Dome of the Rock, and on through churches, mosques, mausoleums, and memorials from San Marco and the Blue Mosque of Tabriz to the Taj Majal and the Jefferson Memorial.

Donovan, The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia III: Acropolis and Lower Town: Tholoi, Grave Circle, and Chamber Tombs, Discoveries outside the Citadel, Princeton 1973.

In the earliest phase of the Second or Architectural Style, all that might be revealed was a glimpse of sky beyond a screen wall, but later, elaborate vistas of tholoi (cylindrical temples), grand colonnades, and grottoes revealed themselves.

Both deal with the Mesara tholoi of pre-palatial (third millennium B.C.) south central Crete, discussing the role of the tombs in the human landscape and in social practice and ritual.

Por ultimo, La Orden-El Seminario cuenta en sus 23 ha con 250 estructuras funerarias: en este caso se utilizan los resultados isotopicos de los sectores PEX 1327 (estructura negativa, NMI = 23) y PEX 7055 (tholoi, NMI = 19).

C., as well as of their trabeated tholoi with conical roofs of the fourth century B.

The exclusive and restricted nature of Early Mycenaean feasts is best illustrated by tumuli in the Argolid and by shaft grave enclosures, as well as by examples of later tholoi and wealthy chamber tombs.

Mallowan's criteria for connecting the levels of different excavation units were typological aspects of the pottery and architecture (tholoi with or without antechamber, with or without stone foundations, and so on).