Tumulus Wikipedia
Tumulus burial accounts. The funeral of Patroclus is described in book 23 of the is burned on a pyre, and his bones are collected into a golden urn in two layers of fat. The barrow is built on the location of the pyre. Achilles then sponsors funeral games, consisting of a chariot race, boxing, wrestling, running, a duel between two champions to the first blood, discus throwing