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Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices. Mycenaean Tomb Types. Cist Grave Grave Circle Tumulus Tholos Chamber Tomb. Tholos, Tholoi: The Treasury of Atreus. Tholos Terms. Tholos Beehive Dromos Passage Stomion Doorway Side Chamber. The Facade. Views of the Treasury.

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Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

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  1. Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

  2. Mycenaean Tomb Types • Cist Grave • Grave Circle • Tumulus • Tholos • Chamber Tomb

  3. Tholos, Tholoi:The Treasury of Atreus

  4. Tholos Terms • Tholos Beehive • Dromos Passage • Stomion Doorway • Side Chamber

  5. The Facade

  6. Views of the Treasury

  7. Roof Construction • Treasury of Atreus

  8. Orchomenos: Ceiling of the Treasury of Minyas

  9. Tholos Plan at Vapheio

  10. Tholos at Vapheio

  11. Chamber Tomb

  12. Chamber Tomb Burials: Section Drawing

  13. Chamber Tomb Multiple Burials

  14. Grave Goods • Not just for the elite • Veneration of dead but only until next burial…

  15. Chamber Tomb Inhumation

  16. Larnax, larnakes

  17. Tanagra Larnakes

  18. Burial Procedure • Prothesis • Ekphora • Taphe

  19. Pithos Burials • Dark Age • Iron Age • Protogeometric, Geometric

  20. Protogeometric Shapes: the pedestal foot

  21. The Heroon at Toumba, Lefkandi

  22. The Heroon Reconstructed • Long apsidal building • Krater

  23. Early Iron Age Burial Practice

  24. Dark Age Burial

  25. Section of Burials at Heroon

  26. Heroon Figurine

  27. Dark Age Burials in Attica • Dipylon Belly-handled amphora • Elaborate Vases • to hold bones of cremated • to mark site of burial

  28. Prothesis: laying out the dead

  29. Dipylon Krater: Prothesis Details?

  30. Homer on Burial? • Inhumation or Cremation? • Tomb style? • Bronze Age or Dark Age practices?

  31. Funeral of Patroclus

  32. Funeral of Patroclus: Red Figure Apulian Vase

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