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Natural PlacesSite Name: Saint Onoufrios catacombs Alternative Name: Agios Onoufrios, Onuphrius catacombsCountry: Greece
NOTE: This site is 59.84 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Peloponnese Peninsula Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Kalamáta Nearest Village: Methoni
Latitude: 36.842790N Longitude: 21.709460E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Information from fredtheblue:
Early Christian cemetery, carved into rocks. Some of the open graves still contain human bones.
The early Christian cemetery of St. Onoufrios, carved into the natural porous rock, consists of six chambers and encompasses both arcosolia, cut in the sides of the chambers, and pit graves. Small niches for the placement of lamps are cut into the rock at the base of the arcosolia arches, while benches and offering tables, structures associated with the funerary cult, are on the sides of the chambers. The roof of the chambers is flat and the arcosolia have the form of relatively high blind arches. The walls were originally covered with paintings, very few of which remain visible today.
The cemetery dates to the mid 4th- 5th century AD. During the Byzantine period (12th -13th century AD) it was converted into a hermitage, when a wall was built in front of the first chamber which was adorned with paintings (frescos), only fragments of which have survived.
The cemetery presents many similarities to the early Christian catacombs of Southern Italy and Sicily, is unique in the Peloponnese and_is one of the few known examples of its kind in Greece.
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