The Casermetta (Mozia)
Area belonging to the archaeological site of Mozia
The Casermetta owes its name to a building leaning against the outside of a large tower of the walls, on the southern coast, between the House of mosaics and the South Gate. The building is divided into two parts placed on either side of an uncovered corridor, at the bottom of which a staircase leads to the upper floor above the defensive walls, where there are the remains of the floor of an open room, in cocciopesto with a drainage channel for rainwater. On the ground floor, the eastern part was divided into three rooms, two of which are contiguous on the front of the building, and a larger internal one, communicating both with the corridor and with one of the two front rooms. The western part consisted of three not well preserved aligned rooms. The walls are built with the "loom" technique, also present elsewhere in Mozia and in the Punic environment: large blocks of sandstone of uniform size and placed at regular intervals form the backbone of the wall, while other similar blocks are used for the jambs of the doors, which retain traces of the collections for the wooden frames. The sections of masonry between the blocks consist of small stones with binder. The intended use of this building is unknown and the absence of stratigraphic data makes its dating problematic. However, its construction is later than that of the great tower of the walls, while its destruction was due to a fire, perhaps in connection with the siege of 397 BC.
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