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Surroundings:

Grave Circle B, MycenaeAegisthu's tholos tomb, MycenaeMycenae. the Lions tombMycenae, the lion's gateLion GateGrave circle A, MyceneGrave Circle A, MycenaeGrave Circle A, MycenaeMycene grave circle AMycene grave circle APROPYLAEA, MYCENAEMYCENAE. AREA OF PALACEMycene North GateMycenePanagia Houses, MycenaePanagia Houses, MycenaePanagia Houses, MycenaePanagia Houses, MycenaePanagia Houses, MycenaePanagia Houses, Mycenaethe entrance of the tunnel to the cisterntomb of Atreusthe entrance of the tomb...Tomb AtreusHeraion, Temple of HeraHeraion, Temple of Heraruins on the Heraion ,temple of goddess HeraRoman ThermeCastle of Agios VasileiosAncient Quarry of Kleonai

Location:

  • Greece, Mikínai
  • geo:37.730698,22.755068
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1300~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=25216

Annotations

The Clytemnestra`s Grave situated beside the Grave Circle B was buit ca 1300 BC.

See:

  1. Chrestos Tsountas, J. Irving Manatt, The Mycenaean Age: A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Pre-Homeric Greece, Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1897
  2. N. G. L. Hammond, Tumulus-Burial in: The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 62 (1967), pp. 77-105
  3. Dudley J. Moore: In Search of the Classical World: An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, p. 44-45
  4. Nil Dirlik, The Tholos Tombs of Mycenaean Greece, Master’s thesis in classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University 2012 [https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:533583/FULLTEXT01.pdf]

Nearby

Grave Circle B, Mycenae

Grave Circle B, Mycenae.

Mycenae, Persea

Sacred fountain of Perseus at Mycene called "Persea"

Aegisthus` Grave, Mycenae

Tomb of Aegisthus at Mycene. Aegisthus Tholos Tomb.


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