Fortification walls of the Hellenized indigenous settlement of Monte Judica. Sicily
Since the first season of excavations carried out by Paolo Orsi in 1906 highlighted the presence of an archaic settlement, however, the great archaeologist did not give it much importance considering the mountain only as a temporary shelter. In fact successive survey campaigns held over the '900 they put the light on the presence of a settlement with Sicilian Hellenized indigenous connotations even in the sixth century. and a decline from the fifth century. On the eastern side of the rise thanks to a thick earthy coverage for leaching, the archaic and Hellenistic dwellings have been preserved to a height of over two meters, allowing a clear reading of the interior. The village of Monte Judica reveals the slow transition from indigenous habits and Greek costumes already in cemeteries as burial caves from multiple switches to cemeteries with graves, as well as appearing more and more import ceramics or the greek model imitation. The anonymous town was in a transit zone between the areas under the control of Katane, Leontini and Syracuse and Enna still controlled areas until the fourth century. by indigenous peoples. The Hellenistic period are the remains of an imposing walls with visible isodomic blocks of local stone on the western edge of the mountain range the saddle. The latest excavations by the Superintendency of Catania were held in 2003.
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Location: Monte Iudica, Castel di Iudica, Catania, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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