Τholos may refer to:
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Tholos (architecture)
A tholos (; ; ; ) is a form of building that was widely used in the Greco-Roman 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 conica ...
, a circular structure, often a temple, of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, and in classical or neoclassical architecture
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Tholos of Delphi
The Tholos of Delphi is among the ancient structures of the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi. The circular temple, a Tholos (architecture), tholos, shares the immediate site with other ancient foundations of the Temple of Athena Pronaia, a ...
, a circular building located approximately 800 metres from the main site of the ruined Temple of Apollo at Delphi
**Tholos (
Epidaurus
Epidaurus () was a small city (''polis'') in ancient Greece, on the Argolid Peninsula at the Saronic Gulf. Two modern towns bear the name Epidavros: ''Palaia Epidavros'' and ''Nea Epidavros''. Since 2010 they belong to the new municipality of Epi ...
), a circular building with an ornate astronomical floor design
**Tholos (Washington DC), the highest part of the
United States Capitol dome
The United States Capitol features a dome situated above its rotunda. The dome is in height and in diameter. Designed by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, it was constructed between 1855 and 1866 at a cost of $1,047,291 ...
, on which the Statue of Freedom stands
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Tholos tomb
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from , ''tholotoi táphoi'', "domed tomb(s)"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudb ...
, or beehive tomb
*Tholos, keyhole-shaped houses of the
Halaf
Tell Halaf () is an archaeological site in Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria, a few kilometers from the city of Ras al-Ayn near the Syria–Turkey border. The site, which dates to the sixth millennium BCE, was the first to be excavated from a N ...
culture of the Ancient Near East
*Tholos, an alternative name of
Theologos, Rhodes, a village in Greece
*Tholos, an institution in
Athens
Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...
where merchants were required to take their weights for comparison with the approved standards.
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