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Close ✕Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae
A Late Bronze Age tholos tomb cut into a hillside near Mycenae, conventionally dated around 1250 BCE and traditionally but not securely attributed to Atreus or Agamemnon.
37.7, 22.8 · approximate · c. 1250 BCE
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- comparable to The Pantheon, Rome — Both roof a great circular space, one by corbelling at about 14.5 m and one by a true concrete dome at about 43.3 m; the Mycenaean record stood for roughly fourteen centuries.
- instance of Corbelling (the false arch and false dome) — The tholos chamber is a corbelled beehive of stepped courses dressed to a curve, not a true dome of wedged voussoirs.
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