Hypogea of the Camposanto
There are 2 hypogea datable to the IV-V century AD, on a site of the Bronze Age, with a common wall but at different heights. The hypogeum “A"Is a vast chamber of mt. 12,40 x 6,80, in the floor there are 13 pits. On the right side there are three stacks of superimposed niches for adults and children and a monosome arcosolium; on the left side there are 18 sarcophagi, articulated in three parallel rows oriented from north to south; the NW bottom is closed by three suggestive arcosoli. A rocky wall separates the hypogeum from a small cubicle with 11 sarcophagi and a trisome arcosolium. The hypogeum "B" it is rectangular like the previous one (11,60 × 5,60). The walls of the vestibule are occupied by stacked niches, while on the right side there are 6 sarcophagi arranged two per row, parallel to the corridor; at the bottom a deep niche trisome arcosolium. On the left other sarcophagi and pits, some of which are transversal to the corridor. At the end a monosome arcosolium with a round arch with on the left side, still legible, a large Constantinian monogram decussate enclosed in a clypeus. There are 93 terrestrial pits. (Source: Melchiorre Trigilia: La Cava d'Ispica Archeology History and Guide)
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