Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

Mycenaean Tomb TypesCist GraveGrave CircleTumulusTholosChamber Tomb

Tholos, Tholoi:The Treasury of Atreus

Tholos TermsTholos BeehiveDromos PassageStomion DoorwaySide Chamber

The Facade

Views of the Treasury

Roof ConstructionTreasury 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 GoodsNot just for the eliteVeneration of dead but only until next burial

Chamber Tomb Inhumation

Larnax, larnakes

Tanagra Larnakes

Burial ProcedureProthesisEkphoraTaphe

Pithos BurialsDark Age Iron Age Protogeometric, Geometric

Protogeometric Shapes: the pedestal foot

The Heroon at Toumba, Lefkandi

The Heroon ReconstructedLong apsidal buildingKrater

Early Iron Age Burial Practice

Dark Age Burial

Section of Burials at Heroon

Heroon Figurine

Dark Age Burials in AtticaDipylon Belly-handled amphoraElaborate Vases to hold bones of crematedto 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