Definition of Polyandrion. Meaning of Polyandrion. Synonyms of Polyandrion

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Polyandrion. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Polyandrion and, of course, Polyandrion synonyms and on the right images related to the word Polyandrion.

Definition of Polyandrion

No result for Polyandrion. Showing similar results...

Meaning of Polyandrion from wikipedia

- polyandrion is the archaeological term for a communal tomb in ancient Greece, where more than one body, usually warriors, are buried. The polyandrion...
- Apostoloi; Turkish: Havariyyun Kilisesi), also known as the Imperial Polyandrion (imperial cemetery), was a Byzantine Eastern Orthodox church in Constantinople...
- The remains of these charred tombs were gathered and reburied in a polyandrion. The popes whose tombs were destro**** are: Pope John X (914–928), Pope...
- 626, as the Chronicon Paschale recounts: And in the section from the Polyandrion Gate as far as the Gate of St Rom**** he prepared to station twelve lofty...
- are covered with foundations. In 1882, the remains of a communal tomb (polyandrion), including a colossal stone lion, were discovered on the road to Leuctra...
- gigantic statue of a lion near the village of Chaeronea, surmounting the polyandrion (πολυάνδριον, common tomb) of the Thebans killed in battle against Philip...
- A.M. Schneider also identifies it with the Gate of Myriandr[i]on or Polyandrion ("Place of Many Men"), possibly a reference to its proximity to a cemetery...
- recent archaeo-anthropological discoveries of the earliest monumental polyandrion (communal burial of male warriors) at Paros Island in Greece, unveiled...
- carcases of the dead, that it be no more called Tophet and Baal, but Polyandrion, i. e. The tomb of the dead. Hence the torments and eternal pains with...
- northwest, p****ing the Church of the Holy Apostles, towards the Gate of Polyandrion, while the other continued southwest, through the Forum of the Ox (Forum...