- University of California, Berkeley
Kim S. Shelton (University of California at Berkeley) reports on work conducted by the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology at Nemea in 2023.
The southwest area of the Sanctuary of Zeus, excavated in 2011–2021, was cleared of vegetation, including the area of the altar. In June 2023, an architectural study of the early Christian basilica was also undertaken, in which the foundations of the basilica (made from spolia from earlier constructions on the site) were recorded. Study also...
Kim S. Shelton (University of California at Berkeley) reports on work undertaken at Nemea in 2022. The cleaning and conservation project of the Early Christian Basilica aimed to preserve the basilica's walls, which had been deteriorated by exposure to the elements, and to prevent the collapse of the upper walls made from large ashlar blocks from the Temple of Zeus. The west end of the 5th-century building, including the narthex and additional rooms, was cleaned and cleared to reveal the...
Nemea, Sanctuary of Zeus. K. Shelton (ASCSA/Berkeley) reports on continuing excavation and study. Work continued to restore the entablature at the northeast corner of the Temple of Zeus, over the previously reconstructed columns. Seven of ten architrave blocks were restored fully with the final three nearing completion. Excavation (Figs 1, 2) revealed evidence of Bronze Age occupation under the later Heroön, and of a greater investment in site formation during the Archaic period than...