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- The site contained four tombs; three tholos tombs and one rectangular tomb.
- There is no clear connection between these domestic, circular buildings and later tholos tombs.
- The bee was an emblem of Potnia, the tholos tombs were shaped as beehives.
- In 1901, Valerios Stais discovered the tholos tomb on the hill of the Neolithic settlement.
- It constitutes the largest tholos tomb yet found in northwestern Greece and was excavated by archaeologist Lazaros Kolonas.
- In 1886, Lolling and Wolters excavated the Mycenean tholos tomb known as " Lamiospito ".
- Near to case 4 stands an amphora with a depiction of an octopus from Tholos tomb II at Routsi.
- Tholos tomb II, which was found intact, apparently contained members of the local elite, as attested by the finds.
- The exhibition space is divided into three consecutive galleries as well as a tholos tombs of the Englianos area, and other nearby archaeological sites.
- Persson excavated an unplundered tholos tomb and many Mycenaean chamber tombs, presumably belonging to the ruling classes having their dwelling at the nearby citadel of Midea.
- The site was abandoned in Middle Minoan IIA . The structures might be tholos tombs, and would be the farthest north and east tombs of their kind on the island.
- A tholos tomb first discovered in 1965 dates to 14th century BCE and shares a ground plan with tholos tombs at Mycenae and ossuaries have been excavated in the south part of the cemetery.
- A tholos tomb first discovered in 1965 dates to 14th century BCE and shares a ground plan with tholos tombs at Mycenae and ossuaries have been excavated in the south part of the cemetery.
- Tholos tombs are found in early Iron Age Thessaly and in Crete but not in general elsewhere, and cremation is the dominant rite in Attica but nearby in the Argolid, it was inhumation.
- A total of nine of such tholos tombs are found in the region of Mycenae, while six of them belong to a single period ( Late Helladic IIa, c . 1400-1300 BC ).
- The bodies of two women found in a Late Minoan tholos tomb are of almost certain royal or religious importance due to the wealth of objects and the unusual sacrifices of a horse and a bull made to the chambers.
- The most important archaeological discovery in Cephalonia ( and indeed in Greece ) of the past twenty years is that, in 1991, of the Mycenaean tholos tomb at the outskirts of Tzanata, near tombs during the Mycenaean period.
- No systematic excavations have been done but two kilometres north-west of the village at Sternaki there is an excavated Minoan settlement which includes a potter's kiln, a four-roomed building and a Late Minoan tholos tomb with a long road.
- Case 5 also contains finds from the tholos tombs of Viglitsa, Tragana, dated to the 17th century BC . Among the items from this tomb were three pithoid amphorae with floral decorations consisting of lilies and ivy leaves and a squeezed bronze two-eared vessel.
- The problem is that there are no traces of any Dorians anywhere until the start of the Geometric period about 950 BC . This simple pottery decoration appears to be correlated with other changes in material culture, such as the introduction of iron weapons and alterations in burial practices from Mycenaean group burials in tholos tombs to individual burials and cremation.