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    The document discusses burial practices in ancient Greece during the Mycenaean and Dark Ages. It describes different tomb types used such as cist graves, grave circles, tumuli, tholoi, and chamber tombs. Specifically, it examines tholos tombs like the Treasury of Atreus. It also details burial customs such as inhumation, the use of larnakes, and funeral procedures involving prothesis and ekphora. Finally, it analyzes burial evidence from this time period found in Attica and sites like the Heroon at Lefkandi.

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    The document discusses burial practices in ancient Greece during the Mycenaean and Dark Ages. It describes different tomb types used such as cist graves, grave circles, tumuli, tholoi, and chamber tombs. Specifically, it examines tholos tombs like the Treasury of Atreus. It also details burial customs such as inhumation, the use of larnakes, and funeral procedures involving prothesis and ekphora. Finally, it analyzes burial evidence from this time period found in Attica and sites like the Heroon at Lefkandi.

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    Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

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    The document discusses burial practices in ancient Greece during the Mycenaean and Dark Ages. It describes different tomb types used such as cist graves, grave circles, tumuli, tholoi, and chamber tombs. Specifically, it examines tholos tombs like the Treasury of Atreus. It also details burial customs such as inhumation, the use of larnakes, and funeral procedures involving prothesis and ekphora. Finally, it analyzes burial evidence from this time period found in Attica and sites like the Heroon at Lefkandi.

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    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

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