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1 Mycenaean & Dark Age Tombs & Burial Practices

2 Mycenaean Tomb Types Cist Grave Grave Circle Tumulus Tholos Chamber Tomb

3 Tholos, Tholoi: The Treasury of Atreus

4 Tholos Terms Tholos Beehive Dromos Passage Stomion Doorway Side Chamber

5 The Facade

6 Views of the Treasury

7 Roof Construction Treasury of Atreus

8 Orchomenos: Ceiling of the Treasury of Minyas

9 Tholos Plan at Vapheio

10 Tholos at Vapheio

11 Chamber Tomb

12 Chamber Tomb Burials: Section Drawing

13 Chamber Tomb Multiple Burials

14 Grave Goods Not just for the elite Veneration of dead but only until next burial…

15 Chamber Tomb Inhumation

16 Larnax, larnakes

17 Tanagra Larnakes

18 Burial Procedure Prothesis Ekphora Taphe

19 Pithos Burials Dark Age Iron Age Protogeometric, Geometric

20 Protogeometric Shapes: the pedestal foot

21 The Heroon at Toumba, Lefkandi

22 Long apsidal building Krater The Heroon Reconstructed

23 Early Iron Age Burial Practice

24 Dark Age Burial

25 Section of Burials at Heroon

26 Heroon Figurine

27 Dark Age Burials in Attica Dipylon Belly-handled amphora Elaborate Vases –to hold bones of cremated –to mark site of burial

28 Prothesis: laying out the dead

29 Dipylon Krater: Prothesis Details?

30 Homer on Burial? Inhumation or Cremation? Tomb style? Bronze Age or Dark Age practices?

31 Funeral of Patroclus

32 Funeral of Patroclus: Red Figure Apulian Vase


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