The Tholos Tomb at Kolophon was excavated in 1922 by Betty Goldman. No trace of the tomb is visible, and no datable sherds were found in the area in 1972. The tomb has a chamber 3,87 m in diameter. The masonry technique of the walls existed in 1922 as high as 1.70 m above the surfice of the tomb, can be paralleled both on he main land and in Crete from Late Helladic I down to Archaic times. A. J. B. Wace characterizes the tomb as being of the Third Late Minoan period1.
- Robert Alden Bridges Jr., The Mycenaean Tholos Tomb at Kolophon in:Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. 43, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1974), pp. 264-266 -http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/147459.pdf
- https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/23178/MicrosoftxWordx-xPathsxandxPlaces.pdf?sequence=1
- Benedikt Grammer, The Burial Grounds of Colophon, Conference: International Olympos of Mysia (Uludağ) Studies Workshop in Büyükorhan and Orhaneli Towns of Bursa
References
- ↑B.S.A., XXV, 1921-1923, p. 395. - http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/147459.pdf