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
Roof Construction Treasury of Atreus
Orchomenos: Ceiling of the Treasury of Minyas
Tholos Plan at Vapheio
Tholos at Vapheio
Chamber Tomb
Chamber Tomb Burials: Section Drawing
Chamber Tomb Multiple Burials
Grave Goods Not just for the elite Veneration of dead but only until next burial…
Chamber Tomb Inhumation
Larnax, larnakes
Tanagra Larnakes
Burial Procedure Prothesis Ekphora Taphe
Pithos Burials Dark Age Iron Age Protogeometric, Geometric
Protogeometric Shapes: the pedestal foot
The Heroon at Toumba, Lefkandi
Long apsidal building Krater The Heroon Reconstructed
Early Iron Age Burial Practice
Dark Age Burial
Section of Burials at Heroon
Heroon Figurine
Dark Age Burials in Attica Dipylon Belly-handled amphora Elaborate Vases –to hold bones of cremated –to mark site of burial
Prothesis: laying out the dead
Dipylon Krater: Prothesis Details?
Homer on Burial? Inhumation or Cremation? Tomb style? Bronze Age or Dark Age practices?
Funeral of Patroclus
Funeral of Patroclus: Red Figure Apulian Vase