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    A stomion was a deep doorway of post and lintel construction that formed the entrance of Mycenaean megalithic structures particularly on tholoi or beehive...
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    Mycenaean chamber tomb (category Archaeology of death)
    (thalamos), joined to a rectangular passageway (dromos) by a threshold (stomion). The size, elaboration and monumentality of Mycenaean chamber tombs varies...
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    Treasury of Atreus (category 1879 archaeological discoveries)
    into a narrow rectangular passageway (dromos), joined by a deep doorway (stomion) to a burial chamber (thalamos) surmounted by a corbelled dome. The dome...
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    Tomb of Aegisthus (category 1892 archaeological discoveries)
    of rain water, particularly in the stomion. Further conservation work was carried out by the Greek Archaeological Service in 1997–1998 to reinforce the...
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    seem to have emerged at about the same time. Both have chamber, doorway stomion and entrance passage dromos but tholoi are largely built while chamber...
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  • Panidos to the Hieron Stomion [i.e., the Bosporus], and all the coastal fortresses situated along the Black Sea from the Hieron Stomion to Varna". These passages...
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    Swedish Cyprus Expedition (category Archaeology of Cyprus)
    are from Late Cypriote II. Many tombs have a dromos that leads to the stomion and then one or two chambers. Sometimes the tombs were reused and sometimes...
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