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in that it is entered though a very large flat temple front with a projecting portico with three rows of columns, while the rest of the exterior is a blank wall without columns or windows, so the circular form is rather obscured from the front until the visitor enters, and sees the enormous circular
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were interred. Stairs lead up to the roof. The large tombs of elite Roman families shared some of the characteristics of weekend cottages, with gardens, orchards, kitchens, and spacious apartments. Many liked to visit their family tomb on birthdays or anniversaries, for a family meal and day of
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or "Santo Stefano Rotundo" in Rome was, perhaps uniquely for its late 5th-century period, newly built as a circular church, apparently unconnected with any burial. It was long thought to have been built onto an earlier circular structure, but excavations have disproved this. The original
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The so-called "Tomb of Tantalus", of a similar date, was fully faced in stone, with a diameter of 33.55 metres, and a height about the same. There was a vertical wall at the base, then a conical roof, much of which survived until 1835, when excavations led by
295:, still rather an innovation, for a ring of 14 columns inside, and the "extraordinary dainty" version of the capitals here was probably an influential model for later buildings. It may have introduced to the Corinthian the flower (or "rosette") touching the 750:, the prostitutes making the largest contribution. It was 900 feet high, and nearly a quarter of a mile in diameter. A large mound, now reduced and slumped at the sides, remains, as does the barrel-vaulted passage to the looted tomb chamber at the centre. 81:), is a form of building that was widely used in the classical world. It is a round structure with a circular wall and a roof, usually built upon a couple of steps (a podium), and often with a ring of columns supporting a conical or domed roof. 543:(market), where it might have been where fish were sold. Other uses for the central tholos have been suggested, such as the place where official weights and measures were held for reference or as shrines to the gods of the market place. Some 1105:, the first by Bramante in 1506, included this combination of elements, at least on the exterior; as at St Peter's, false domes often gave a different interior view. The pairing of drum and dome was initially mostly used for churches, as at 431: 753: 932:
Augustus set the precedent for a number of circular imperial tombs over the following centuries; some either became, or were built into, Christian churches, which have generally survived more intact. The largest is the
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in 1737, is one of relatively few large buildings after the Renaissance to use a purely circular plan, with little emphasis on the entrance, in a classical style that is full of complexities and looks back to Italian
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The Mausoleum of Augustus measured 90 m (295 ft) in diameter by 42 m (137 ft) in height. The tomb was placed at the centre of a public park, long almost entirely built over, which included the
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and other altars. From ancient writers it is clear that there was greenery, probably trees, growing on top of the upper parts, of an artificial mound or dome, which fell in and has not been restored to date. The
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around the inside of the wall, rising up from a low stone bench. The building had "a more decorative treatment than would then have been permissable in a temple". It is now partially reconstructed at the site.
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around 1502. It is a small building whose innovation, as far as Western Europe was concerned, was to use the tholos form as the base for a dome above; this may have reflected a Byzantine structure in
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near Rome. The top was a mound of earth, with (in the Greek world) one or more upright stones at the summit. The Etruscan burial chambers were below ground level and rather large, crowded with family
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construction, now much altered, had three concentric parts, all circular. Going from the centre outwards there was a 22-metre high central space, of the same diameter, surrounded by a much lower
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began there around 28 BC. As (nearly) restored in the 21st century, there is an outer ring, then a space around the cylinder with the tomb-chamber, where the ashes of many of the
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using labour from the French Navy collapsed it. The passage leading to the rectangular burial chamber at the centre was entirely filled in with stones. The chamber was
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over the tomb of Christ. The Roman Temple of Vesta (which has no dome) was probably also an influence. This pairing of tholos, now called a "drum" or "
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visited it and says that stones at the summit recorded that it was constructed by the market traders, craftsmen and prostitutes of the nearby capital
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remains anything like intact, with most known only by excavation of their distinctive circular foundations, and other parts found lying on the site.
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to form a pointed arch shape between two straight end walls. This was also the largest monument in a cemetery, now on the outskirts of
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in Ravenna, of 520, uses Roman construction techniques but is in an impressive but unclassical style, possibly borrowing from Syria;
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design completely encircled by a colonnade, but most served other functions, and some were architecturally innovative. According to
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in the 260s BC. It is often called the Arsinoeum (or Arsinoëion, Arsinoë Rotunda), as a dedication tablet for the Ptolomeic Queen
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in Rome is the largest, best known and best preserved. These were mostly oval rather than round and, like the semi-circular
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in Athens, about 334 BC, the first surviving building to use the Corinthian order on the outside – there was no inside.
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Juba and Cleopatra Selene were probably still living in polite captivity in Rome when construction of the circular
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Most preferred the Pantheon-style rotunda, with a pronounced temple front, or often several. The famous
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was nearly 13.5 metres across. It has been dated to 370–360 BC. Its role remains unclear. There were 20
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The large building known as "the tholos" (but also "the parasol") in the centre of Athens, just off the
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had a water fountain or water feature in the centre of their courtyard instead of a tholos structure.
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and other areas. But many other round tombs and mausolea were built, especially for Roman emperors.
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in London (1697), but later other buildings, and continued until the 20th century at least. The
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An increasingly large series of round buildings were constructed in the developing tradition of
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around 360 BC, and was 22 metres across. An inscription tells us the building was called the
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is one of a number of buildings where a tholos is above the dome, serving as a base for the
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constructed some significant tumulus tombs. The largest was that made about 600 BC for King
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BC) was a circular memorial in limestone and marble, the rather cramped interior containing
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Inside six columns supported the original conical roof, which seems have been covered with
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is "very plain", with no exterior columns, showing "utter economy its construction".
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is a surviving example, but unusual in still having much of its rich mosaic decoration.
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by a vertical or sloping stone wall round the base, a type still seen in abundance in
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941:(died 138), then converted into a castle. This had a garden on the flat roof. The 1185: 1170: 1083: 1056: 606: 527: 523: 522:, in the absence of any firm evidence for the actual dedication – perhaps to the 384: 322: 318: 46: 303:, it had at least two windows flanking the doorway, and perhaps more higher up. 219:
tiles round the lower parts, and perhaps bronze sheets higher up, leading to an
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Foundation of the Arsinoeum at Samothrace, with the dedication slab at front
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supporting a roof but without any walls, which therefore does not have a
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of the upper part (except for a flat top) formed into steps, like the
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Lawrence, 186, posits a second conical roof over the flat roof shown.
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The tholos was revived in one of the most influential buildings in
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In Roman cities a tholos could often be found in the centre of the
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The largest Greek tholos, of uncertain function, was built in the
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around the outside, with engaged Corinthian half-columns inside.
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according to ancient opinion". This was designed by the sculptor
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has surrounded the vertical section of wall at the base with
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By far the most famous roofed round Roman building is the
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was the most common form of early Greek tomb, often
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Index

Tholos (Ancient Rome)
Tholos

Philippeion
Olympia
Ancient Greek
Latin
monopteros
Polytonic
colonnade
cella
rotundas

classical architecture
Late antiquity
rotunda
beehive tomb
Bronze Age Greece

Tholos of Delphi
Ancient Greek architecture
peripteral
A. W. Lawrence
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates
agora
boule
prytaneion
terracotta
acroterion
Philippeion

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