If this identification of the tholos and thalamos be accepted, no doubt can remain that we have here to deal with a space similar to many yet remaining in Greece, generally known under the name of treasure-houses.
Fragments of an Engaged Column from the Tholos of Atreus.
The Tholos of Atreus offers a welcome commentary upon the thesauros of the royal palace at Ithaca, but only in respect to its construction.
A relieving gable was consequently constructed, similar to that common in Egypt during the age of the Pyramids, and to that described in the consideration of the Tholos of Atreus.
An entrance-passage, the dromos, led from the valley to the tholosin a gently inclined ascent.
The Tholosof Atreus was itself subterranean; the exterior of the conical mass of masonry was covered with a hill of earth.
It is the same shaft, diminishing from summit to base, which has been noticed upon the portal front of the Tholos of Atreus.
The same derivation is evident in the spiral ornaments, which closely resemble those upon the facade of the Tholos of Atreus, and upon Phoenician and Cyprian remains.
The tholos of the palace at Ithaca was an isolated circular structure, before the court, and may perhaps be identified with the high thalamos to which Telemachos descended.
In each case a tholos occupies the centre of the upper story and the pairs of flanking columns are crowned by a broken pediment.
Athenaeus gives a description of a tholos on the state barge of Ptolemy Philadelphos, and Vitruvius a description of a wall painting at Alabanda, which Studniczka compares with the Khazneh.
The tholos in these façades is a Hellenistic motive, though it is known to us at an early period only from wall paintings and from literary sources.
The Tholos lay to the south-west of the temple of Asclepius; it must, when perfect, have been one of the most beautiful buildings in Greece; the exquisite carving of its mouldings is only equalled by that of the Erechtheum at Athens.
The Tholos of Polykletos at Epidauros was a circular building 107 feet in diameter, situated within the sacred enclosure.
The similarity between New Grange and the tholostombs of the mainland of Greece is so striking that it is at least likely that the former may have been derived from the latter.
One of the most beautiful Corinthian capitals is that from the Tholos of Epidaurus (400 B.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tholos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
