For the minute consecutive year, an Italian-English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remains of the almost of import sanctuary inward the ancient metropolis of Halaesa, where traces of an ancient home convey also been found.
View of the archaeological site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Allie Caulfield] |
From June to July, the site was the focus of half dozen weeks of operate for archaeologists from the Universities of Messina, directed past times Lorenzo Campagna, too Oxford, led past times Jonathan Prag, inward collaboration amongst the Museum of Silvopastoral Traditions inward Mistretta too the Superintendence of Messina.
View of the agora of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: SABAP Messina] |
In the centre of the sanctuary are traces of its largest too almost of import edifice amongst white mosaic flooring, columns too architectural decorations. Inside in that place were several statues of which unopen to fragments were found during the earthworks too unopen to of which also belong to a statue of a woman mortal deity kept inward the antiquarium of Tusa.
The trench that allowed the identification of the home of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Eugenio Donato, University of Messina] |
Sea thought from the home site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Mission Archéologique Française d'Halaesa - MAFHA] |
Archaeologists at operate at the site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Mission Archéologique Française d'Halaesa - MAFHA] |
"We are rattling happy too rattling proud to denote that Sicily has unopen to other ancient home here... inward Halaesa. Two years of searching for a clue too at the end, thank yous to studies amongst sophisticated technologies (lidar, electrical tomography, thermal cameras), surveying too a large exploratory trench to a greater extent than than fifty metres long too betwixt ii too half dozen metres wide, it was locomote found. Along the gradient was a stone topographic point like to others discovered inward ancient Sicilian theatres. This element," explained the archaeologists, "together amongst others, such equally the steps cutting into the stone too the well-defined orchestra expanse flanked past times a pavement, hand us the certainty that it is a theatre, the fourteenth inward Sicily!"
View of the Santuary of Apollo, at Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Repubblica] |
View of the Santuary of Apollo, at Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Repubblica] |
Cobblestone route lately discovered at the site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Repubblica] |
Its strategic topographic point at in i lawsuit determined its importance, becoming a bulwark against a possible advancement of the Carthaginians inward the area. It would grow plenty to live able to mint its ain money. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 column surmounted past times a domestic dog was the symbol of the city, representing its command of the territory, an icon that nosotros observe today on the coat of arms of Tusa.
Weathered caput of statue found at the site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Repubblica] |
Sources: La Repubblica & Fame di Sud [August 12, 2018]
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