[2] Scholars argue that these scenes demonstrate the prevalence of warfare in Mycenaean culture,[2] in addition to signifying a socially stratified society.

To incise the stelai, Mycenaean artists carved out the background of a previously sketched image, creating a raised relief.

Figural imagery, including chariot scenes with humans and large animals like horses and lions, also appear on the stelai.

Younger concludes that the stelai do not refer to any specific burial, but instead represent a collective of the bodies buried in Circle A.

[5] He says that the grave stele, a small marker emphasizing ties among the elite, were later replaced by the tholos tomb, a more outward and monumental form of burial practice.