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‖ tholos Arch. (ˈθɒlɒs) Pl. tholoi (-ɔɪ). Also in Latin form (esp. in sense 1) tholus (ˈθəʊləs), pl. tholi (-aɪ). [L. tholus, Gr. θόλος, a round building with a conical or vaulted roof.] a. A circular domed building or structure; a dome, cupola; a lantern.1644 Evelyn Diary 7 Nov., A pretty odd fabri...
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Tholos
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Tholos of Delphi, a circular building located approximately 800 metres from the main site of the ruined Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Tholos on which the Statue of Freedom stands
Tholos tomb, or beehive tomb
Tholos, keyhole-shaped houses of the Halaf culture of the Ancient Near East
Tholos,
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Tholos (architecture)
The tholos is not to be confused with the beehive tomb, or "tholos tomb" in modern terminology, a distinct form in Late Bronze Age Greece and other areas The Panthéon in Paris is also topped by a tholos below a dome.
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Tholos do Barro
The Tholos do Barro (also known as the Tholos da Pena) was a Chalcolithic or Copper-Age domed tomb of block masonry. The tholos was classified as a National Monument in September 1940.
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tholoid
tholoid Geol. (ˈθəʊlɔɪd) [f. Gr. θόλος see tholos + -oid.] A dome-shaped, steep-sided extrusion of hardened lava plugging the vent of a volcano. In quot. 1912 repr. a Ger. form.1912 Jrnl. Geol. XX. 85 ‘Tholoides’ have slopes of over 35° and are convex upward. 1939 Nature 25 Nov. 913/2 Of the latter ...
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Tholos of Delphi
The Tholos of Delphi is among the ancient structures of the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi. The tholos is part of the Delphi UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Tholos de Montelirio
Tholos de Montelirio is an archaeological site in Seville Province, Spain, at Valencina de la Concepción. Tholos de Montelirio is closed to the general public, but its objects can be viewed in the Archeological Museum of Seville.
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Tholos de El Romeral
Tholos de El Romeral, situated north east of the town of Antequera (Andalusia), is one of the most important examples of early Bronze Age architecture Architecture
Tholos de El Romeral is a chambered tomb covered by a mound.
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Drillia tholos
Drillia tholos is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae. Description
Drillia tholos is a species of marine snail native to Natal, California. Dead Drillia tholos often form shallow marine sediments.
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Macellum
A macellum provides shops arranged around a courtyard which contains a central tholos. Some macella had a water fountain or water feature in the centre of their courtyard instead of a tholos structure.
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Polykleitos the Younger
Polykleitos the Younger was the architect of the Theatre and Tholos at Epidaurus. Started around 360 BC, the Tholos exhibited elaborate detailing, especially on the Corinthian capitals of its interior columns.
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Apesokari
which join the tholos tomb as well. The Minoan tribes that occupied Crete built and used the Tholos Tombs.
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Nuraghe Is Paras
According to the archaeologist Giovanni Lilliu its tholos is the largest and most harmonious of all those present in Sardinia. world when it was built in the 15-14th century bc, it was surpassed by the underground tholos of the tomb of Atreus one or two centuries later.
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Praia das Maçãs Prehistoric Monument
The tholos was added later. The later tholos was composed of a circular chamber with a diameter of approximately .
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