The palace at Dimini is the most important Mycenaean monument in Thessaly and the only palatial centre in the region. Both the palace and the nearby tholos tombs indicate that Dimini had a ruling class, which controlled the administration, religion and economy, as in the other Mycenaean centres of southern and central Greece. This centre had contacts with the entire Mycenaean world and the eastern Mediterranean, and an advanced system of commercial exchange and supply of raw materials. These contacts ...

The palace at Dimini is the most important Mycenaean monument in Thessaly and the only palatial centre in the region. Both the palace and the nearby tholos tombs indicate that Dimini had a ruling class, which controlled the administration, religion and economy, as in the other Mycenaean centres of southern and central Greece. This centre had contacts with the entire Mycenaean world and the eastern Mediterranean, and an advanced system of commercial exchange and supply of raw materials. These contacts ...

The name “Lamiospito” belongs to the smallest and oldest of the two important tholos tombs found at Dimini. Nestling in a mountain slope, it lies 300m to the west of the hill hosting the remains of a Neolithic settlement. Based on its architecture, it is dated to the fourteenth century BC (Late Helladic ΙΙΙΑ2).
The tomb was accessed through a downhill dromos (entrance passageway) 14.50m of length and 3.30m of width. The front of the dromos was retained by 1m wide stone walls slightly converging ...

An imposing tholos tomb also known as “Toumba” lies at Dimini, on the west hillside together with other remains of the Neolithic period. Combined with the second smaller tholos tomb situated there, named “Lamiospito”, they constitute important monuments for the area, securely correlated to the hegemons (rulers) of the Mycenaean settlement at Dimini. Based on the architectural form and the sparse pottery found while clearing the dromos (entrance passageway), the tomb of “Toumba” is slightly posterior ...