For You Lot Data - The Greek Metropolis Of Halaesa Comes To Low-Cal Inwards Messina, Sicily


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.

English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
View of the archaeological site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit:  Allie Caulfield]
Halaesa, inward fact, was a Sicilian-Greek metropolis of considerable importance that took its cite from the Alesa river, today the Tusa stream. Here in that place was a sanctuary dedicated to the god Apollo that overlooks the coast too the oral fissure of the river too which was identified inward the fifties past times the archeologist Gianfilippo Carrettoni exactly has since been covered amongst vegetation too all exactly forgotten.

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.

English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
View of the agora of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: SABAP Messina]
The operate resulted inward the reconstruction of the layout of the large religious complex, which was dominated past times a podium fifty metres long too 4 metres high; ii other sacred buildings convey also been identified, spell unopen to findings seem to propose the presence of at to the lowest degree ii other smaller temples which volition live investigated inward the 2019 campaign.


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.

English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
The trench that allowed the identification of the home of Halaesa, Tusa
[Credit: Eugenio Donato, University of Messina]
English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
Sea thought from the home site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Mission Archéologique 
Française d'Halaesa - MAFHA]
English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
Archaeologists at operate at the site of Halaesa, Tusa [Credit: Mission Archéologique 
Française d'Halaesa - MAFHA]
The regain of the home was announced a calendar week before past times the "Mission Archéologique Française d'Halaesa - MAFHA", the French squad engaged inward the fieldwork led past times Vincent Michel from the Université de Poitiers too Michela Costanzi from the Université de Picardie "Jules Verne" of Amiens.


"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!"

English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
View of the Santuary of Apollo, at Halaesa, Tusa 
[Credit: Repubblica]
English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
View of the Santuary of Apollo, at Halaesa, Tusa 
[Credit: Repubblica]
English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
Cobblestone route lately discovered at the site of Halaesa, Tusa 
[Credit: Repubblica]
Both novel findings seem to confirm the business office of a metropolis that Cicero called the commencement of the "beautiful too important" cities of his time. The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus says the metropolis was established inward 403 BC, on a loma non far from the sea. It was founded subsequently peace was brokered amongst the powerful Greek polis of Syracuse, too therefore ruled past times Dionysus I, past times the Sicilian tyrant of Herbita, Arconide, who would cite it Halaesa Arconidea inward his honour.


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.

English mission earthworks drive has been carried out inward the expanse that houses the remai For You Information - The Greek metropolis of Halaesa comes to lite inward Messina, Sicily
Weathered caput of statue found at the site of Halaesa, Tusa 
[Credit: Repubblica]
The metropolis allied itself amongst the Romans when they arrived inward Sicily inward 263 B BC, too when the Roman tell of Sicily was established inward 241 BC, it obtained the condition of civitas libera ac immunis (ie. autonomous too gratis of taxes), a privileged condition that favoured its economical too demographic development. Under Augustus the metropolis locomote became a municipium too acquired sum Roman citizenship.

Sources: La Repubblica & Fame di Sud [August 12, 2018]


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