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单词 tholos-tomb
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tholos-tomb
b. Ancient Greek History. An excavated circular tomb of the Mycenæan age, domed and lined with masonry. Also tholos-tomb.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > types of ancient or prehistoric
table tomb1738
well tomb1843
chamber tomb1850
passage grave1865
allée couverte1870
passage tomb1870
mastaba1882
tholos1885
beehive tomb1887
circle-tomb1889
shaft tomb1895
shaft-grave1910
pit-cave1921
gallery grave1937
dyss1938
1885 Athenæum 12 Dec. 773/2 Mr. Pullan..was astonished to find that the lower cell of the so-called prison of St. Peter at Rome was part of a tholus.
1896 Academy 18 July 54/2 The tholoi with their entrance passages or dromoi excavated in the indurated clay of the hillside were..of good Mycenaean period.
1910 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 479 Among the forms sepulchre are the great bee-hive tholos [etc.].
1957 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 6) v. 80 These [sc. chieftains] celebrated their elevation by erecting stately beehive tombs or tholoi.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Mar. 282/1 The megalithic architecture of Britain..had no conceivable ancestry in the Mycenaean tholoi.
attributive.1902 R. C. Bosanquet in Ann. Brit. Sch. at Athens VIII. 305 Tholos-burial was introduced in eastern Crete towards the close of the Minoan Age.1921 Discovery Feb. 33/1 The principle of the tholos-tomb was most in use in Mycenæan times.1983 Times 10 Feb. 1/3 The underground tholos tomb, shaped like a giant beehive, lies in a fifteenth-century BC cemetery..three miles south of Argos.
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