Ayia Sotira

Location

Site Related Projects

Project Project Date Project Director(s) Project Period Research Type
ASCE - Tomb 6 Sunday, June 1, 2008 to Thursday, July 31, 2008 Evangelia Pappi Late Helladic IIIA/B funerary structure excavation
ASCE - Tomb 5 Friday, June 1, 2007 to Friday, August 31, 2007 Evangelia Pappi Late Helladic IIIA2, Late Helladic IIIA/B, Late Helladic IIIB, Late Helladic IIIB1 funerary structure excavation
ASCE - Tomb 4 Thursday, June 1, 2006 to Thursday, August 31, 2006 Evangelia Pappi Late Helladic IIIB2, Late Helladic IIIB1, Byzantine: A.D. 337 - 1453 funerary structure excavation
Ayia Sotira Cemetery Excavation Thursday, June 1, 2006 to Tuesday, August 31, 2010 R. Angus K. Smith, James C. Wright, Mary K. Dabney Late Helladic IIIA, Late Helladic IIIB, Archaic: 725 - 480 B.C., Middle Byzantine: A.D. 650 - 1024 Geophysical Survey, test trench excavation, funerary structure excavation
ASCE - Tomb 2 Thursday, June 1, 2006 to Thursday, August 31, 2006 Evangelia Pappi Late Helladic IIIA/B, Late Helladic IIIB1 funerary structure excavation
ASCE - Tomb 3 Thursday, June 1, 2006 to Thursday, August 31, 2006 Evangelia Pappi Late Helladic IIIA1, Late Helladic IIIA2, Late Helladic IIIB1, Archaic: 725 - 480 B.C. funerary structure excavation

Site Related Finds

Object Name Material Object Date - Earliest Object Date - Latest
ASCE001 spherical bead Stone LH IIIA1 LH IIIB2
ASCE002 jug Clay LH IIIA2
ASCE003 stirrup jar Clay Late Helladic IIIB

Site Related Images

Late Helladic IIIB stirrup jar from the chamber of Tomb 5 at the Ayia Sotira Cemetery (Ancient Nemea, Peloponnesus)
Late Helladic IIIA2 jug from the chamber of Tomb 5 at the Ayia Sotira Cemetery (Ancient Nemea, Peloponnesus)
Tiny stone beads possibly from one or more necklaces found in the side chamber of the dromos of Tomb 5 at the Ayia Sotira Cemetery (Ancient Nemea, Peloponnesus)
Section drawing looking E through the dromos of Tomb 5 in the Mycenaean cemetery at Ayia Sotira (Peloponnesos).
Overall view of Tomb 5 from S showing off center chamber and slight westward bend in dromos in the Ayai Sotira Mycenaean cemetery (Peloponnesos)
View of the chamber of Tomb 4 to the N, showing the lower stratum with pits and skeleton in the Ayia Sotira Mycenaean cemetery (Peloponnesos)
Map of the Ayia Sotira (Peloponnesos) Mycenaean cemetery
Removal of sediment from bedrock surface for excavation of Tomb 6 in the Mycenaean cemetery at Ayia Sotira (Peloponessos)