Tomb of Clytemnestra

The Tomb of Clytemnestra is a Mycenaean tholos type tomb built in c. 1250 BC [1]. The Tomb of Clytemnestra with its imposing façade is together with the Treasury of Atreus the most monumental tomb of that type [1]. The entrance to the tomb consists of a dromos with walls of ashlar in conglomerate [1]. The exterior façade of the stomion is decorated with half-columns made of gypsum which were carefully carved with ornate capitals and vertical fluting [1]. A large relieving triangle overlaps the door lintel [1]. It was originally decorated by a colored relief sculpture [1]. Through the lintel block a small drain is cut in the rock, lined with low rubble walls and roofed with small slabs [1]. During the Ottoman rule of Greece the tomb was raided by Veli Pasha [1].