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theater of Orchomenosview from the castleOrchomenos, Macedonian tower

Location:

  • Greece, Orchomenós
  • geo:38.493156,22.974598
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1250 / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=26050

Annotations

When Pausanias visited Orchomenos and described the tholos in detail (9, 38, 2-3). it was plundered in antiquity.

See:

  1. Heinrich Schliemann: Orchomenos: Bericht über meine Ausgrabungen im böotischen Orchomenos, Leipzig 1881, pp. 16-18, diff.
  2. Dudley J. Moore: In Search of the Classical World: An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 41-42

Nearby

Orchomenos [Boeotia]

Beotian Orchomenus - Town of Charites.

Theatre Orchomenos

Theatre Orchomenos

Orchomenos in Boeotia

Mycenean settlement.


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