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[Image] 2012.50.1383 (XIV-71)

Cut through the Tholos floor against the face of the west side wall with backing for revetment removed. For view before removal, cf. 1997.04.0147 ... AMS 2697 Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jul 1938

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[Monument] Tholos

Administrative, Dining, Civic Athenian Demos Limestone, Mudbrick Poor, foundations only ... Ca. 470 B.C.

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[Notebook] Β-14

Mixed ... Homer A. Thompson ... 2562 2759 ... 1 May 1938- 4 July 1938, December 1938

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[Publication] Hesperia Suppl. 4 (1940): The Tholos of Athens and its Predecessors

Thompson, H. A ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Famous classical buildings, such as the Parthenon, are preserved in such monumental isolation that it is hard to reconstruct the effect that they might have had on the ancient visitor. Their setting relative ... 1940