Treasury of Atreus
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 | Treasury of Atreus |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Mycenae, Greece |
| Date | -1200 |
| Building Type | Tholos tomb |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | -- |
| Architectural Style | Early Ancient Greek |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | -- |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Treasury_of_Atreus.html |
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"This tholos tomb with stone dome, the largest known, was plundered in antiquity. An access passage (dromos), bordered by a peudo-isodome wall, leads to a fa�ade 10.5 metres (34 feet) high. The door opens on to a rotunda, 14.6 metres (48 feet) in diameter and 13.5 metres (44 feet) high, with a masonry domed vault of 33 regular courses; some blocks bore a metal decoration, probably of 'patera' form. This door has a pyramidal shape which is also found in Egypt, and which reappears in classical architecture. The lintel is made up of two enormous blocks; the inner one weighs about 120 tons. The void triangle above it is characteristic of Mycenaean architecture: it serves to deflect the thrusts of the upper part of the building on to the supports of the door...No other Mycenaean building can boast such exact stone cutting, nor such refined proportions; not for another 1,000 years in Greece was such technical perfection put at the service of such a grandiose architectural design."
— John Julius Norwich. The World Atlas of Architecture. p135.
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Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p15. — Available at Amazon.com
Yetsuh Frank, University of Oregon. Photograph from photographer's collection, October 1993. DIL PCD.2285.1013.1938.22.
D. S. Robertson, M. A. A Handbook of Greek and Roman Architecture. London: Cambridge University Press, 1929. NA260.R6. transverse section drawing, f15, p34. section drawing, f15, p34. longitudinal section drawing, f15, p34. plan drawing, f15, p34.
Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture, from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986. interior photo, p80.
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing of doorway exterior, f12, p9. perspective drawing of doorway interior, f10, p9. no image credit.
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