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The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon [1] is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, Greece. [2]It is the largest and most elaborate tholos tomb known to have been constructed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and one of the last to have been built in the Argolid.
The most monumental of these with imposing façades are the Treasury of Atreus and the Tomb of Clytemnestra. The latter built in c. 1250 BC was the last tomb of this type in the region. [2] It is also one of the representative examples of Mycenaean tholos tombs together with the Treasury of Atreus and the Tomb of the Genii. [3]
The Tomb of Aegisthus is a Mycenaean tholos tomb located near the citadel of Mycenae, Greece. It was constructed in the Late Helladic IIA period, [1] approximately 1510–1450 BCE, [2] and rediscovered in the 19th century. It was first excavated by Winifred Lamb in 1922, [3] as part of a project led by Alan Wace.
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek: θολωτός τάφος, romanized: tholotós táphos, θολωτοί τάφοι tholotoi táphoi, "domed tomb(s)"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often ...
Mycenaean chamber tombs were cut into the bedrock (as opposed to the contemporary tholos tombs, which are constructed from masonry), usually on sloping terrain, and formed of a chamber (thalamos), joined to a rectangular passageway (dromos) by a threshold . The size, elaboration and monumentality of Mycenaean chamber tombs varies considerably ...
He also excavated at the Mycenaean citadel of Tiryns in the Argolid between 1890 and 1891. [14] In 1887, Tsountas excavated the looted cemeteries of Tanagra in Boeotia. [7] He worked at Tiryns in 1890–1891, [15] and excavated the tholos tomb at Kambos near Avia in Messenia in 1891, uncovering Minoan-type figurines. [16]
Pages in category "Mycenaean tholos tombs" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Tomb of Aegisthus;
In 1991 archaeologist Lazaros Kolonas, excavating in the Broutzi area of Tzanata, discovered a tholos (beehive) tomb from the Mycenaean period measuring 6.80 meters in diameter. [2] Some claim that it is the burial place of Odysseus; others believe it to be the tomb of earlier royalty, circa 1400 BC.