place

Tholos

Places

A named circular corbelled tomb or chamber of Aegean practice. Not a hypogeum, not a dolmen, and not a generic roundhouse.

Also known as Tholos tomb · Beehive tomb

Hellenic religion

  • Tholos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names tholos buildings, circular chambers and tombs of Greek sites, in his Description. A named Hellenic round form in that travel book, not a hypogeum and not a roundhouse.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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