The Lantern-Roofed Tombs in Thrace and Anatolia: Some Evidence ...

4 Bossert 1942, 86-7, 296, figs. 1123-6.
5 The designation was used by Mellink (1967, 173) in her report on
Gemlik tomb. However, in earlier publication Mellink (1963, 189) described
the Musahocaköy lantern-roofed tomb as having ‘a pseudo-vaulted roof of
the type also known in Phrygia and Galatia’, and more recently Mellink
(1992, 148) cited a report by Tomris Bakir where the tomb at Daskyleion is
described as ‘roofed in the manner of Thracian vaulted tombs’.
6 Used by Ginouvès and Guimier-Sorbets (1994), and Hellmann (2002,
268-9). In a similar way, the Late Classical and Hellenistic barrel-vaulted
tombs widespread in Macedonia and Thrace are often called ‘Macedonian
tombs’ and this terminology originates in some early scholarly publications,
such as Perdrizet (1898, 335-45) where the barrel-vaulted tomb at
Amphipolis is attributed to ‘type «macédonien»’. However, barrel vaulting
applied in the funerary architecture is attested in the Near East, Levant and
Egypt during the late 2nd and early 1st millennia B.C., and also, this
technique is well known in tombs of Archaic Lydia, Cyprus and Etruria –
many centuries before being applied in the chamber tombs of Macedonia
and Thrace. Cf. discussion on barrel vaulting technique in Fedak (1990, 166-
7 with op. cit.).
7 Kasper (1975; 1976-1977; 1978) and Vetters (1971-1972, 42-6; 1972, 3-
6) provide recent detailed studies on the tumular chamber tomb at Belevi.
8 Suggested by Mansel (1943, 53 with op. cit.; 1946, 8-9; 1950, 478;
1974, 189 with op. cit.), Young (1956, 252), von Gall (1966, 81-2), Fedak
(1990, 171 with op. cit.), and Ginouvès and Guimier-Sorbets (1994 with op.
cit.), who provide a number of mediaeval and modern examples of diagonal
roofing in stone or wood applied in cult and house architecture of East
Turkey, Armenia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and elsewhere in Asia.
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