Mnemata

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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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