GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS TIRYNS TOMBS

The tholos tomb of Tiryns (speaking of the one better known) lies on the western slopes of the Prophitis Ilias hill, about 1 km Southeast from the acropolis of Tiryns. The first part of the road is asphalt, but then it is an unpaved path through a citrus tree plantation.

The tholos, discovered in 1913, is dated to the LH III or LH IIIB period (14th / 13th century BC). It has a 3 m wide dromos of 13 m in length, with a facade of rough-hewn limestone blocks. Above the stomion (see: Mycenaean burials), in antiquity sealed by a double-winged door, sits a monolithic lintel measuring 3 x 2 x 0.40 m.

Above left: Wall of the dromos. - Above right and below: The stomion with remarkably inclined walls.

Below left: the ceiling of the circular thalamos with a diameter of 8.50 m. - Below right: Wall of the thalamos, similarly constructed as the walls of the dromos.