Cozzo Villa - Gallitto Hypogeum
Quadrangular hypogeal chamber, with niches and small corridors carved out along the walls. It is accessed by means of a staircase of 12 steps. Vault and walls are covered with white juice, the floor is obtained with a lime paste
sand and pebbles. It had already been destroyed in an earlier era. The niches and cinerary jars were torn up and destroyed and everything was found in fragments, the head of a monolith sarcophagus broken, and the depositions upset. The observed funeral rite was that of cremation inside clay pots, placed in niches, while inhumations, protected by roofing slabs, were placed in side galleries. The single sarcophagus was used for multiple depositions. The slabs covering the niches bore the inscriptions of the names of the deceased. In addition to oil lamps and fragments of clay pots, graffiti and sketches of a funeral nature were found. The numerous amphorae in fragments, found in a layer of sand, allude to the reuse,
always in antiquity of the hypogeum in the cellar. 4 bronze coins were also found.
Map of constraints (.pdf): 09_6_historical_cultural_system
Sicily Region Landscape Plan Areas 14 -17 Syracuse:
Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero
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