tholos

/thoh-los, -lohs/US // ˈθoʊ lɒs, -loʊs //UK // (ˈθəʊlɒs) //

托洛斯,索罗斯,托罗斯,钍

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural tho·loi [thoh-loi]. /ˈθoʊ lɔɪ/.
- : a circular building.a small, round structure, as a lantern.a circular subterranean tomb, lined with masonry.
- : a subterranean domed tomb chamber of the Mycenaean age.

Below this stratum was an older shaft grave, as is usual in tholos interments; it had been plundered?
There is no evidence for the statement sometimes made that there was a well or spring below the Tholos.
The Tholos of Polykletos at Epidauros was a circular building 107 feet in diameter, situated within the sacred enclosure.
When Pausanias speaks of the tholos at Epidaurus a second time, he does not call it by that name, but .
The Tholos of Atreus was itself subterranean; the exterior of the conical mass of masonry was covered with a hill of earth.