Mnemata Explained

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.

Etymology

Mnemata means graves.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hadjisavvas, Sophocles. The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume I. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. 2013. 3. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111945/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~semitic/wl/publications/2012/hadjisavvas.html. 2016-03-04.
2. Book: Heltzer, M. . Epigraphic Evidence Concerning a Jewish Settlement in Kition (Larnaca, Cyprus) in the Achaemenid period (IV cent B.C.E.) . Aula Orientalis 7 (1989) . 189.