Входът в тракийската култова архитектура
Entrance in Thracian Cult Architecture

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the ways of shaping of entrances to Thracian buildings under tumuli. Comparisons and analyses of selected examples allow for establishing of a several kinds of approaches to the decorative and sculptured shaping of entrances and gates, accentuating the significance of those to passing into the nether world. Comparisons with similar architectural solutions to other buildings under tumuli in the Mediterranean show that these approaches have been applied in religious architecture in the region during the first millennium BC. On grounds of the study, an assumption is made of the same artistic devices being used for the representation of the ‘entrance’ symbolizing the transition between adjacent spaces in cult architecture in the Mediterranean, resulting from the performance of the same construction practices.

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