Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture

Greek Architecture. Earliest Period.

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Description

Title/Description
Tholos (”beehive”) tomb (called the “Treasury of Atreus”)
View Description
: [top] plan; [bottom] section
Original Caption
Greek Architecture. Earliest Period.
Treasury at Mycenae.
Location
Mycenae, Argolis, Greece
Category
Aegean
Style Period
Greek, Helladic/Mycenaean
Subject
Mycenae (Extinct city)--Treasury of Atreus
Date
ca. 1300 B.C.E.
Dimensions
8.25 x 7.4 cm.
Source
Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series I.
Type
engraving
Page Plate Figure
Plate 7, figure 3
File ID
Prang7_3
Catalog Info Source
Allan T. Kohl

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