2024-11-0920180307-013110.1017/byz.2018.72-s2.0-85053069013http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/byz.2018.7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/6809This article examines textual and material evidence regarding the burials of emperors during the Palaiologan period. It is argued that the Palaiologos dynasty did not initially have a plan to establish an imperial mausoleum: the monastery of Lips, re-founded by Theodora Palaiologina and often regarded by modern scholars as an imperial mausoleum, was instead conceived as a family shrine. Small-scale attempts to establish imperial mausolea are discernible only from the middle of the fourteenth century onwards, with the burials of Andronikos III and John V in the monastery of ton Hodegon and of the last Palaiologoi in the Pantokrator.HumanitiesJournal Article1749-625X443814400004Q15377