Main entry:

Branigan, Keith.

Title & Author:

The tombs of Mesara : a study of funerary architecture and ritual in Southern Crete, 2800-1700 B.C.

Publication:

London : Duckworth, 1970.

Description:

xv, 189 pages, 8 plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176).
Preface -- the tombs discovered -- The monuments of a millennium -- The vaulted tombs of Mesara? -- Grave-goods -- The burial of the dead -- Death and the dead -- The cemetery and society -- The Minoan Tholos-- its origins and history -- Appendix 1: Structural details of forty-two tholoi -- Appendix 2: The finds made in forty-two tholoi -- Appendix 3: The chronology of twenty-nine tholoi -- Appendix 4: Catalogue of Early and Middle Bronze Age build circular chamber tombs of Mesara type.

Summary:

"Tholos Tombs For centuries the Minoans used Tholos Tombs and sacred caves, along with pithoi and larnakes for burial of their dead. Many Tholos Tombs have been found in Crete dating back to prepalatial times. They were usually round in shape with one short entrance, although tholos tombs rectangular in shape were not unusual, like the ones found in Palekastro, and some were cut into hill sides, while most were free-standing structures. What has survived to date consists of the foundations or the lower part of the walls, so it is difficult to gauge their height or their shape at the top. It is believed however that many had a flat wood framed roof. The largest tholos tomb is found in Platanos and measures about 13 meters in diameter. The tholos tombs were used extensively during the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods (2600-1700 BC), and many were continuously used until historic times."--Http://www.ancient-greece.org/architecture/minoan-archi.html.

ISBN:

0715605224
9780715605226

Subject:

Minoans.
Tombs Greece Mesara Plain.
Tombs Greece Crete.
Minoens.
Tombeaux Grèce Crète.
Tombeaux Grèce Messara.
Antiquities
Tombs
Minóicos.
Arquitetura funerária Grécia.
Ritos funerários Grécia;creta micênica.
Túmulos (arquitetura) Grécia;creta micênica.
Excavations (Archaeology) Greece Messara.
Minoans Civilization Crete Messara.
Tombs Greece Messara.
Rites and ceremonies Greece Crete History.
Mesara Plain (Greece) Antiquities.
Greece Crete
Greece Mesara Plain
Messara (Greece) Tombs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 143419
Call No.: ID:85-B26938
Status: Available