tholos

They were initially thought to be remnants of a round shrine or tholos.

Marine animals decorated friezes around the base of the tholos.

The old centre of Tholos is built in traditional Rhodian style.

Slightly further east, on the south side of the main road, is the Gymnasium and the Tholos.

The upper stage, or tholos, is a circular chapel with Corinthian columns.

The Tholos was made out of limestone.

The Corinthian capital is made in the tholos at Epidaurus.

A cauldron is within the tholos and emits a fire evoking the Olympic torch.

On the inside there would be a steel tree sheathed in gold, representing new life, bursting through the open peak of the tholos.

A number of surviving temple-like structures are circular, and are referred to as tholos.

Its tholos (columned rotunda) is set in a beautiful wooded lot with the sanctuary on the hillside behind.

Vergina consists primarily of the major dome (tholos).

The tholos was entered from an inclined uncovered hall or dromos, 36 meters long and with dry-stone walls.

The Tholos is located approximately a half a mile (800 m) from the main ruins at Delphi.

They ate at public expense in the Tholos, a circular edifice constructed for them next to the boule house.

The site contained four tombs; three tholos tombs and one rectangular tomb.

By Hellenistic and Roman times, the domical tholos had become the customary cemetery symbol.

Theologos (also known as Tholos): is a village on the Greek island of Rhodes.

A potter's kiln, a building with four rooms and a Late Minoan tholos tomb have been excavated.

The area is populated by a necropolis of various rectangular burial mounds and tholos (with chambers and corridors).

From the balcony, metal stairs take visitors over the painting and up to the outside balcony under the tholos directly beneath the Statue of Freedom.

Charles Wachsmuth holds the former view and regards the Tholos as merely a dining-room for the Prytaneis in the old democratic period.

The cupola shows direct influence by the Tholos of Delphi, a circular temple built about 360 BC.

A tholos, adorned with frescoes, at the top of the Sacra via, where the clivus Palatinus branched off to the south.

Hence the frequent confusion with the Tholos which was near the council chamber and was the residence of the Prytaneis of the council.