<< Our Photo Pages >> Cossyra Acropolis - Ancient Village or Settlement in Italy in Sicily (Sicilia)
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Multi-periodSite Name: Cossyra AcropolisCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 1.221 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sicily (Sicilia) Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Pantelleria Nearest Village: Pantelleria
Latitude: 36.822413N Longitude: 11.951404E
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 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 |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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The acropolis has remains of walls made of rectangular masonry blocks, about 50 cisterns, an open space between 2 hills which held the agora as well as the foundations of a medium sized temple on one of the hills. Punic tombs and the votive terra-cottas of a small sanctuary of the Punic period were found near the north coast.
Cossyra was taken by Rome around 217 BCE, before they moved on to take Carthage itself. The inhabitants appear to have been assimilated reasonably peacefully by the Romans.
On the west coast, 3 km south-east of the harbour, there is a Neolithic village, with a rampart of small blocks of obsidian, about 7.5 m high, 10 m wide at the base, and 5 m at the top. On the undefended eastern side, remains of huts were found, with pottery, tools of obsidian, and other artifacts. The objects discovered are in the Syracuse museum. To the south-east, in the district known as the Cunelie, are a large number of tombs, known as Sesi, similar in character to the nuraghe of Sardinia, though of smaller size, consisting of round or elliptical towers with sepulchral chambers in them, built of rough blocks of lava. 57 of them can still be traced. The largest is an ellipse of about 18 by 20 m, but most of the sesi have a diameter of only 6 to 7.5 m. The identical character of the pottery found in the Sesi with that found in the prehistoric village proves that the former are the tombs of the inhabitants of the latter.
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