When Pausanias visited Orchomenos and described the tholos in detail (9, 38, 2-3). it was plundered in antiquity.
See:
- Heinrich Schliemann: Orchomenos: Bericht über meine Ausgrabungen im böotischen Orchomenos, Leipzig 1881, pp. 16-18, diff.
- Dudley J. Moore: In Search of the Classical World: An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 41-42
