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§ IX.—The Tholos Tombs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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At the time of Schliemann's excavations in 1876 six tholos tombs were known at Mycenae, the Treasury of Atreus, the Tomb of Clytemnestra, the Lion Tomb, the Epano Phournos, the Cyclopean Tomb and the Kato Phournos. Most of these had been seen by earlier travellers, such as Leake and Dodwell. Lord Sligo and Lord Elgin had conducted explorations in the Treasury of Atreus: Veli Pasha had attacked the Tomb of Clytemnestra, and apparently was responsible for the destruction of its dome. Steffen marks all these six on his excellent map of Mycenae and its environs. Schliemann in 1873 and 1876 was the first to begin the excavation of the tholos tombs. He made some tests in the Treasury of Atreus, and Mrs. Schliemann superintended the operations intended to clear the Tomb of Clytemnestra, but she was unable to complete them. By 1879 Stamatakes had cleared the dromos and chambers of the Treasury of Atreus, which, till then, as shewn clearly in the Elgin drawings preserved in the British Museum, were blocked with a large accumulation of earth. In 1886 Tsountas commenced his long and fruitful series of excavations, and among other important finds was rewarded by the discovery of three more tholos tombs.

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page 300 note 1 This is the earliest appearance in the tholos tombs of stucco, which is of lime and similar to that used for covering the walls of Minoan and Mycenaean houses and palaces.

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page 302 note 1 These may have been the remains of a bench running round the base of the wall of the tholos. One of the tholoi at Dimeni had such a bench, but of crude brick, and a chamber tomb at Mycenae had a bench of hewn slabs of poros running round all four sides: Wace-Thompson, , Prehistoric Thessaly, p. 82Google Scholar; Tsountas-Manatt, , Mycenaean Age, p. 136Google Scholar.

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page 304 note 1 See p. 355, Fig. 75 o, below: similar beads from the Tomb of Clytemnestra and Tomb of Genii, pp. 372, 383, below.

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page 309 note 1 Some pieces of this were found in the tholos.

page 309 note 2 Some pieces of this were found in the tholos.

page 309 note 3 Cf. the fragments from Mycenae, Furtwängler-Loeschcke, , Myk. Vasen, Pl. XXVGoogle Scholar.

page 310 note 1 This vase is of mainland and not of Cretan fabric.

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page 320 note 1 Expédition de Morée, Vol. II. Pl. 69, Fig. 11Google Scholar.

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page 329 note 1 Frazer, , Pausanias, III, p. 137Google Scholar.

page 329 note 2 Cf. also the creation of a sacred area round the tombs of the Shaft Grave Dynasty; see above, pp. 121 ff.

page 330 note 1 It lies so near and in a place where the natural building material available is the same as at Mycenae, that it can for all practical purposes be included here among the Mycenae tholoi.

page 330 note 2 Pp. 271–286.

page 330 note 3 Plate XII.

page 333 note 1 Stamatakes' measurements of these pits do not agree with his plan, which is not quite accurate.

page 334 note 1 The numbers in brackets are those of the inventory of the National Museum at Athens. As Stamatakes' description and illustration of these objects are insufficient, they are republished here.

page 336 note 1 Lamps of this type were found in the Royal Tomb at Isopata, which is of L.M. II. date (Evans, , Prehistoric Tombs, Figs. 126, 127Google Scholar); at Palaikastro, also L.M. II. (Bosanquet-Dawkins, op. cit. Pl. XXX. Fig. 3, p. 138; and in Tomb 102 at Mycenae (Bosanquet, , J.H.S. 1904, Pl. XIVGoogle Scholar. a, b), which dates from L.H. II.

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page 337 note 1 See below, pp. 397 ff.

page 337 note 2 See Tomb 518.

page 338 note 1 Op. cit. Plate XII.

page 338 note 2 Furtwángler and Loeschcke in their text emphasise these points.

page 338 note 3 Vol. II. Pls. LXVI.–LXXI.

page 338 note 4 Ath. Mitt. 1879, pp. 177 ffGoogle Scholar.

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page 342 note 1 Cf. Durm, , Jahreskefte, x. pp. 46 ffGoogle Scholar.

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page 344 note 1 Ath. Mitt. 1879, Pl. XIII. A. Those who consult the inventory of the National Museum at Athens about objects from this tomb and the Tomb of Clytemnestra should remember that Stamatakes called the Tomb of Clytemnestra ‘Tholos Tomb 1’ and the Treasury of Atreus ‘Tholos Tomb 2,’ while Tsountas reversed the numbers, calling the former 2 and the latter 1.

page 344 note 2 Perrot-Chipiez, , Hist. d. l'Art. vi. p. 624, Fig. 271Google Scholar.

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page 344 note 4 Perrot-Chipiez, op cit. vi. pp. 623, 625, Figs. 270, 273.

page 344 note 5 B. M. Sculpt, i. p. 13, 2Google Scholar; Perrot-Chipiez, op. cit. p. 627, Fig. 275.

page 344 note 6 Stuart-Revett, Antiquities of Athens, Supplement, Pl. V.

page 344 note 7 See below, p. 359, Fig. 77, Pl. LVIII.

page 345 note 1 Perrot-Chipiez, op. cit. pp. 627, 628, Figs. 276, 277.

page 345 note 2 B. M. Sculpt, iii. p. 452, No. 2725Google Scholar.

page 345 note 3 See above, p. 235, Pl. XXXV., a.

page 345 note 4 It might be thought that the use in a vase (Evans, , Prehist. Tombs, p. 159, Fig. 144Google Scholar) from the Isopata Tomb of two bands of this pattern one above the other with a narrow zone of a chessboard pattern interposed between them could justify this suggestion, but it is not safe to argue from architectural motives employed in vase paintings.

page 346 note 1 The restorations by Perrot, and Chipiez, (Histoire de l'Art dans l'Antiquité, vi. Pls. V., VI.Google Scholar) are too imaginative.

page 346 note 2 The blocks in the doorway of the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenos are similarly sawn.

page 347 note 1 Similar lines of nail-holes exist in the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenos.

page 347 note 2 The two shallow cuttings 1·70 m. from the floor in the side walls within the actual tomb are probably modern, though it has been suggested they were made to receive the door-handles, but one is 1·10 m. distant from the frame, and the other only ·90 m., and 1·70 is very high for a handle.

page 347 note 3 The lower pivot holes would have been in this.

page 348 note 1 The threshold of the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenos consists of two blocks set on the wedge principle: it was worked over in Hellenistic times.

page 348 note 2 See p. 356.

page 348 note 3 The rat-hole now (1923) visible by the side of the southern block has been made since our investigations.

page 349 note 1 See p. 283.

page 349 note 2 See below, p. 354.

page 349 note 3 See below, pp. 353 ff.: cf., p. 356.

page 349 note 4 See above, p. 340.

page 350 note 1 Expédition de Morée, ii. Pl. LXVI.

page 350 note 2 The orientation of this chamber is not quite correctly shewn on earlier plans. Its axis is not at right angles to that of the tholos and dromos (nor south of this as in Thiersch's plan), but slightly turned to the north.

page 350 note 3 Only five such holes are visible on the southern side, where the angles are damaged, but the end is well framed on the north side and has been marked on the plan accordingly.

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page 352 note 1 Cf. Tsountas, in Πρακτικά, 1896, p. 30Google Scholar.

page 352 note 2 Though the saw was more freely used there than in the Treasury of Atreus.

page 353 note 1 Since not all these finds have yet been entered in the inventory of the National Museum at Athens, we have retained the numbering of an old inventory made when the objects were transferred to the National Museum. The numbers in brackets are those of the current National Museum inventory.

page 354 note 1 Rodenwaldt, in Tiryns, ii. Pl. VII. pp. 47, 176Google Scholar.

page 354 note 2 See above, p. 169, Pl. XXIX.

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page 355 note 2 P. 357, No. 6.

page 356 note 1 See above, p. 336.

page 356 note 2 See below, p. 357, No. 9.

page 356 note 3 See p. 348, above.

page 357 note 1 Cf. Pl. V. e from Stratum II. by Lion Gate in contrast with Pl. V. f, a late deep bowl from the Granary.

page 357 note 2 Πρακτικά, 1891, pp. 19 ff.Google Scholar; 1892, p. 57; 1897, P. 25.

page 358 note 1 Πρακτικά, 1892, p. 57Google Scholar.

page 358 note 2 Pp. 368 ff.

page 359 note 1 Cf. Durm, , Jahreshefte, x. pp. 59 ff.Google Scholar

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page 360 note 2 Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, etc., p. 62 ff., Figs. 76, 77Google Scholar.

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page 361 note 2 Perrot-Chipiez, op. cit., vi. Fig. 118.

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page 364 note 1 Waldstein, , Argive Heraeum, ii. Pls. XLII.–XLVGoogle Scholar.

page 364 note 2 Tiryns, i. Pl. I. ff.

page 364 note 3 Furtwängler-Loeschcke, Myk. Tongefässe, Pl. VI.

page 364 note 4 Cf. Blegen, , Korakou, p. 46, Fig. 62 (10), Pl. IV. 6Google Scholar.

page 364 note 5 Furtwängler-Loeschcke, op. cit. Pl. III. (10, 11).

page 364 note 6 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1914, Pl. II. 1, 3.

page 364 note 7 This is an example of a Palace Style amphora which is earlier than L.H. II.

page 365 note 1 Rodenwaldt, , Fries d. Megarons, p. 24, Fig. 14Google Scholar.

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page 367 note 1 See above, pp. 336, 356.

page 367 note 2 Cf. B.S.A. xxiv. p. 201, Pl. XI.Google Scholar, see above, pp. 1, 183.

page 368 note 1 One is illustrated by Schliemann, Mycenae, Fig. 215.

page 368 note 2 Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 563Google Scholar.

page 368 note 3 At Phylakopi Melian imitations of L.M. I. ware were found together with imported L.M. II. vases, B.S.A. xvii. p. 14Google Scholar.

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page 369 note 3 Cf. the similar nail-head in gold from the Tomb of Genii, p. 382, below, No. 4537, c, and those from L.M. III. tombs near Phaistos, Mon. Ant. xiv. p. 602, Figs. 68, 69Google Scholar.

page 369 note 4 Not visible in the illustration Pl. LIX. A.

page 369 note 5 Ἀρχ·Δϵλτίον, iii., p. 339, Fig. 193Google Scholar.

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page 370 note 1 B.C.H. 1878, Pls. XIII.–XIX.

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page 370 note 3 B.M. Excavations in Cyprus, Pls. I., II., especially Pl. II. 1340.

page 370 note 4 B.C.H. 1878, Pl. XVIII. 2.

page 370 note 5 Tsountas-Manatt, Mycenaean Age, Fig. 85.

page 370 note 6 In spite of the National Museum inventory this seems to have been found in the tholos and not in the pit in the dromos: Πρακτικά, 1891, p. 20Google Scholar.

page 371 note 1 The ivory inlays from Tomb 518 are similarly scored on the back.

page 372 note 1 Similar to the L.M. III. segmented beads of paste from Isopata (Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, p. 16Google Scholar) and the cemetery near Phaistos (Mon. Ant. xiv. pp. 632–3, Fig. 102Google Scholar), which replace the earlier faience beads of the same type (Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 491Google Scholar).

page 372 note 2 Similar to those from the Treasury of Atreus, see above, p. 355.

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page 372 note 6 Tsountas, , Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1888, pp. 138 ff.Google Scholar, Pl. IX.

page 372 note 7 Schliemann, , Mycenae, p. 267, Fig. 423Google Scholar.

page 372 note 8 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1906, Pl. XIV.

page 373 note 1 Similar butterflies from Kapakle, Athens, Nat. Mus. 5610, 5617; Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1906, Pl. XIV. Cf. also those from Tomb 102 at Mycenae, J.H.S. 1904, p. 324, Fig. 1, cGoogle Scholar.

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page 374 note 1 The likeness between them and the finds from the L.M. III. Tombs at Phaistos is to be noted, Mon. Ant. xiv. pp. 599 ff.Google Scholar

page 374 note 2 Found in the bedding of the lowest course between it and the native rock about ·50 m. in from the face of the wall.

page 374 note 3 Cf. Schliemann, , Mycenae, p. 98, Fig. 153Google Scholar; Tiryns, Pl. IV.

page 376 note 1 1896, pp. 29–31.

page 376 note 2 Figs. 12–14, p. 19.

page 379 note 1 Mycenaean Tree and Pillar Cult, p. 19.

page 380 note 1 Evans, op. cit. p. 16, Fig. 7.

page 380 note 2 Op. cit., loc. cit.

page 380 note 3 J.H.S., 1902, Pls. VI., VII.

page 380 note 4 Cf. Glotz, , Civilisation Egéenne, p. 277Google Scholar.

page 380 note 5 Ἀρχ. Δϵλτίον, ii, Παράργημα, Pl. I (1).

page 380 note 6 Athens, Nat. Mus. 4551, Mycenae Tomb 93: Evans, op. cit., Fig. 12.

page 380 note 7 Evans, op. cit., Fig. 1.

page 382 note 1 Somewhat similar nail-heads were found in the L.M. III. cemetery at Phaistos, Mon. Ant. xiv. p. 602, Figs. 68, 69Google Scholar.

page 384 note 1 The development of this curled leaf ornament is discussed in the Appendix below pp.397 ff.

page 384 note 2 Lolling, , Kuppelgrab bei Menidi, Pl. III. 23Google Scholar.

page 385 note 1 Cf. the practice of decorating clay vessels with unfixed colours, apparently for funeral purposes only, Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, pp. 26 ff.Google Scholar; Prehist. Tombs, p. 72.

page 385 note 2 Athens, Nat. Mus. 2523.

page 385 note 3 Tomb 88, Athens, Nat. Mus. 3153.

page 385 note 4 Tomb 88, Athens, Nat. Mus. 3214; Citadel, Athens, Nat. Mus. 3024.

page 385 note 5 Tomb 55, Athens Nat. Mus. 2794.

page 385 note 6 Tomb 55, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2793; Tomb. 69, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2929; Mycenae 1892, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2893; Menidi, Athens, Nat. Mus. 1941.

page 385 note 7 Athens, Nat. Mus. 1596; Schliemann, Tiryns, Pl. VI.

page 385 note 8 Athens, Nat. Mus. 23, 24; Schliemann, Mycenae, Figs. 303–306.

page 385 note 9 Athens, Nat. Mus. 3191.

page 385 note 10 Tsountas-Manatt, , Mycenaean Age, p. 174Google Scholar.

page 385 note 11 Evans, , Prehist. Tombs, p. 89, Fig. 101 (15–17)Google Scholar; Mon. Ant. xiv. p. 607, Fig. 76Google Scholar.

page 387 note 1 They are similar to the small objects from the L.M. III. tombs at Phaistos, Mon. Ant. xiv. pp. 599 ff.Google Scholar

page 387 note 2 Lolling, Kuppelgrab bei Menidi; cf. Wolters, , Jahrbuch, 1899, pp. 115 ff.Google Scholar

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page 387 note 4 Ornaments in bluish glass paste in L.H. III. replace the faience of L.H. I.; consequently faience is commoner in Crete because Knossos was dominant in the earlier period, and glass paste is commoner on the mainland because by L.H. III. the supremacy of Mycenae was established.

page 389 note 1 See p. 120, above.

page 390 note 1 See pp. 347 ff., 360 fi., 378, above.

page 390 note 2 See above, pp. 12 ff., 268 ff.

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page 392 note 2 Ibid. ix. pp. 130 ff.

page 392 note 3 Ibid. xi. pp. 2 ff.; Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, pp. 59 ff.Google Scholar

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page 393 note 2 Tsountas, op. cit. p. 115.

page 393 note 3 Tsountas, , Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1899, pp. 79 ff.Google Scholar, Pl. VII.

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page 394 note 3 Ath. Mitt. 1908, pp. 295 ff.Google Scholar; 1909, pp, 269 ff.

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page 394 note 13 His monograph on these tombs has been recently published by the Liverpool University Press, The Vaulted Tombs of Mesará.

page 395 note 1 Evans, , Prehist. Tombs, pp. 136 ff.Google Scholar; similar but much inferior is Chamber Tomb 1, though also L.M. II. in date, Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, pp. 6 ff.Google Scholar

page 395 note 2 Ath. Mitt. 1910, p. 150Google Scholar; Evans, , Tomb of Double Axes, p. 9Google Scholar.

page 395 note 3 Ἀρχ. Δϵλτίον, ii. pp. 171 ff.Google Scholar

page 395 note 4 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1904, pp. 21 ff.Google Scholar; cf. the tombs at Praisos, and Plati, , B.S.A. viii. pp. 245 ff.Google Scholar, xx. p. 13, Pl. VI.

page 395 note 5 Hall, E. H., Vrokastro, pp. 123 ff.Google Scholar

page 395 note 6 A.J.A. 1901, pp. 287, 294, 302 ff.Google Scholar

page 395 note 7 Ibid. 1901, pp. 262 ff.

page 395 note 8 Ibid. 1901, pp. 439 ff. Cf. the Tomb, Praisos, B.S.A. viii. pp. 240 ff.Google Scholar

page 395 note 9 J.H.S. 1887, pp. 66 ff.Google Scholar

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page 398 note 1 Evans, , Palace of Minos, i. p. 488, Fig. 350Google Scholar.

page 398 note 2 The specimen referred to from the Messenian Pylos (Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1914, p. 103, Fig. 5Google Scholar) is in glass paste and not faience. It cannot be dated to L.M. I. b, as suggested, since it was found on the floor of the tholos tomb with other objects of late (L.H. III.) date, and not in one of the undisturbed grave-pits. It probably dates from the same period as similar glass paste examples from the mainland, and is therefore not earlier than the end of L.H. II.

page 398 note 3 Schliemann, , Mycenae, Figs. 162, 163 (Athens, Nat. Mus. 1019, 1020)Google Scholar; Tsountas, , Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1897, Pl. VII. 1 (Athens, Nat. Mus. 2567)Google Scholar.

page 398 note 4 From Tomb of Genii, Mycenae; Athens, Nat. Mus. 4542 = Fig. 89, k, above.

page 398 note 5 Cf. Tsountas, , Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1897, pp. 98 ff.Google Scholar

page 398 note 6 We are much indebted to his skill for our knowledge of the technical points involved.

page 398 note 7 Candia Museum, No. 194.

page 398 note 8 Mon. Ant. xiv. pp. 632 ff.Google Scholar, Fig. 106.

page 400 note 1 B.C.H. 1904, p. 384, Fig. 17Google Scholar; Athens, Nat. Mus. 5564.

page 400 note 2 Ath. Mitt. 1909, Pls. XIII. (27), XIV. (1); Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1889, Pl. VII. (7).

page 400 note 3 Athens, Nat. Mus. 5572.

page 400 note 4 B.C.H., loc. cit., Fig. 14; Athens, Nat. Mus. 5571.

page 400 note 5 There is one example of the ornament under discussion in the National Museum. Athens (Case 51 in the Mycenaean Room, no inventory number attached), which still has some of the gold foil adhering to it, and there are many specimens with the gold discs attached (e.g. Athens, Nat. Mus. 2309 from Tomb 24, Mycenae; Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1888, Pl. IX. 9), and one (Athens, Nat. Mus. 2829, Mycenae Tomb 55) with discs of glass paste hanging from it.

page 400 note 6 These holes were in many cases pierced after the casting, but the incised lines which appear at the side of the curl in the mould from Mycenae (quoted above, Schliemann, Mycenae, Fig. 162) shew that the craftsmen sometimes inserted a wire through the curl at the time of casting so as to produce this hole with less trouble.

page 401 note 1 Pl. LXI. 2, f, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2279, Mycenae Tomb (?); Pl. LXI. 2, g, Athens Nat. Mus. 2495, Mycenae Tomb 40.

page 401 note 2 Pl. LXI. 2, b, Spata, Athens, Nat. Mus. 2071.

page 401 note 3 Pl.. LXI. 2, a, Athens, Nat. Mus. 4550, Mycenae Tomb 93.

page 401 note 4 E.g. Athens, Nat. Mus. 2513, from Tsountas' House, Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1887, Pl. XIII. 12, 18Google Scholar. In some specimens the ribs of the curled leaves are beaded, an obvious imitation of the granulated gold work seen in the Argos specimens, D above.

page 401 note 5 Mycenae Tomb 55, Athens, Nat. Mus, 2829.

page 401 note 6 Πρακτικά, 1886, p. 78Google Scholar; Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1887, Pl. XIII. 23Google Scholar.

page 402 note 1 Ἐϕ. Ἀρχ. 1887, Pl. XIII. 24Google Scholar.