Site details

Nea Ionia: Nemesis

PK	C1508
TITLE	Nea Ionia: Nemesis
WGS84	38.055283° N, 23.750462° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	38.055283, 23.750462
LON/LAT	23.750462, 38.055283

DMS

38° 3' 19.0188" N

23° 45' 1.6632" E

W3W	fenced, hacking, helpers
UTM	34 S, 741324, 4215521
EGSA87	477959, 4211691

Elevation m	151
Elevation feet	495.4
Region	Attica

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson [1981], 44    '...it is difficult to determine whether or not it would originally have been sufficiently important to have been the seat of the "dynasty" for whom the Menidi tomb was presumably constructed...', "Menidi tomb" refers to 'C1507'.
2.    Settlement.   Privitera [2013], 99    '...insediamento...' Privitera is here considering alternatives for the settlement connected to the tholos of Lykotroupa (C1507).
3.    Sherds.   Phialon [2011], 140    'Au nord d'Athènes, des tessons peut-être HM ont été recensés sur la colline de Némésis, ... '

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 44,  Size: 19200 sq. m.  'Its top surface now measures about 160 m. northwest to southeast by 120 m., but the hill has been heavily eroded ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 44, 'N MH? LH IIIA(1?)-B'
    b.    Phialon [2011]: 140, ' ..., des tessons peut-être HM ...'

2. LH IIB: (1470 BC - 1410 BC)
    a.    Privitera [2013]: 99, 'Da una tomba posta in questa stessa zona potrebbe provenire una phiale TE IIB/IIIA1...'

3. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Privitera [2013]: 99, '... dove è presente ceramica del TE IIIA-B.'

4. LH IIIA1: (1410 BC - 1375 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 44, 'N MH? LH IIIA(1?)-B'
    b.    Privitera [2013]: 99, 'Da una tomba posta in questa stessa zona potrebbe provenire una phiale TE IIB/IIIA1...'

5. LH IIIA2: (1375 BC - 1320 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 44, 'N MH? LH IIIA(1?)-B'

6. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 44, 'N MH? LH IIIA(1?)-B'
    b.    Privitera [2013]: 99, '... dove è presente ceramica del TE IIIA-B.'

NOTE

1. In Simpson [1959]: "Abstract: The site to be described lies on a low hill a little to the north of the small village or suburb of Nemesis, about 150 metres to the west of the main road from Patisia to Koukouvaounes, and 1 kilometre to east-south-east of the Mycenaean tholos tomb at Lykotroupa, which was excavated by the German Institute in 1879, and is usually called the Menidi Tomb. The site at Nemesis is visible from the tholos tomb, and is separated from it by a gentle valley through which run, in a southerly direction, two streams with steep banks. The eastern stream is the river Kephissos, whose name goes back at least as far as the classical period. The hill of Nemesis stands about 15 to 20 metres above the level of the surrounding land, and measures about 160 m. north-west to south-east × 120 m. north-east to south-west. The hill is an isolated outcrop of conglomerate rock, thinly covered with stony brown earth. It has been eroded over an area about 250 m. north-south × 50 m. east-west, so that its original size was considerably larger than at present, in all about 30,000 square metres. Mycenaean sherds were found over the whole of this area, though mainly in the eroded part, among the lumps of fallen earth and rock. Remains of rubble walling together with several Mycenaean sherds were found here, and also in the steep cliffs formed by the erosion on the west and south sides (this part of the hill has been undermined by recent excavation of the beds of grey clay, which here lie at between 2 and 3 metres below the original ground level). The ancient remains are particularly noticeable in the south-west angle of the cliffs (roughly in the centre of the part of the hill shown on Plate 71a), where there is a greater depth of earth above the rock than is visible elsewhere on the hill."

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Phialon [2011]: Phialon, Laetitia. L'Émergence de la Civilisation Mycénienne en Grèce Centrale. Peeters, Leuven - Liege. Belgium. 2011., 'I.3.1.22. Du Mont Aegaleos au golfe d'Éleusis', pg. 140.

2. Privitera [2013]: Privitera, Santo. Principi, Pelasgi, e pescatori: L'Attica nella Tarda Eta del Bronzo. . Paestum: Pandemos. 2013., '3. Nemesis e Koukouvaones', pg. 99.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'B 11 Nea Ionia: Nemesis', pg. 44. Online here.

4. Simpson [1959]: Simpson, Richard Hope. ‘Nemesis: A Mycenaean Settlement Near the Menidi Tholos Tomb’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 53, pp. 292-294, 1959, '', pg. 292. Online here.