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As a generic term tholos tomb is an alternative name for a Beehive tomb from the late Bronze Age.

It is also the name given to several Ancient Greek structures and buildings:

The Tholos at Athens was the building which housed the Prytaneion, or seat of government, in ancient Athens
The Tholos at Delphi is a circular building located approximately 800 metres from the main site of
The Tholos at Epidaurus is a circular building with an ornate astronomical floor design
A Tholos pod
The Tholos also appears at the Treasury structure in Petra, Jordan

It may also refer to the tallest part of the United States Capitol dome on which the Statue of Freedom stands.

It may also refer to the ancient Roman tholos, a structure found in the centre of the macellum.

It also refers to the unrelated keyhole-shaped houses of the Halaf culture of the Ancient Near East.

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From LoveToKnow 1911

THOLOS (06Xos), the term given in Greek architecture to a circular building, with or without a peristyle; the earliest examples are those of the beehive tombs at Mycenae and in other parts of Greece, which were covered by domes built in horizontal courses of masonry. The Tholos at Epidaurus, built by Polycleitus (c. 400 B.C.), and the Tholos at Olympia, known as the Philippeion, are the most remarkable examples, and in both cases were covered with a sloping roof and not with a dome.