Tholos (“beehive”) tomb (called the “Treasury of Atreus” or the “Tomb of Agamemnon”)

Style period: Greek, Helladic (Mycenaean)

Title/Subject: Tholos (“beehive”) tomb (called the “Treasury of Atreus” or the “Tomb of Agamemnon”)

View: from east of dromos and entrance showing relieving triangle above lintel

Date: ca. 1300 BCE

Classification: Architecture

Work type: buildings; funerary structures; tombs

Location: Mycenae, Argolis, Greece

Image_Filename: AEG018

original photograph by Allan T. Kohl

Rights: Creative Commons (Use with attribution)

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