Mnemata

Mnemata is a locality[1] in Larnaca, Cyprus. An archaeological site named the Mnemata Site is located here. Over the site a supermarket now stands.

The area "had been used as a cemetery from the beginning of the Iron Age until the Roman times", and there were four cemeteries in its environs in 1989.[2]

Archaeological excavation site

The site—at the western necropolis of the city-kingdom of Kition—"that became known as the Agios Georgios cemetery, occupies the entire flat surface of the eminence an elevated land area or a hill" at Mnemata.[3]

Name

Mnemata means graves.[4]

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References
  1. Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume I. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  2. Heltzer, M. Epigraphic Evidence Concerning a Jewish Settlement in Kition (Larnaca, Cyprus) in the Achamenid period (IV cent B.C.E.) (PDF). Aula Orientalis 7 (1989). p. 189.
  3. Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume I. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  4. Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume I. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
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