Contrada Furmica necropolis
Necropolis
Four pit tombs lined and covered with limestone slabs. A Capuchin tomb.
In 1959, during agricultural works, a limestone slab with an insulting Greek inscription was found in the Mirona building. A series of essays unearthed five classical Greek age tombs which returned grave goods dated from the second half of the XNUMXth century. BC and the middle of the fourth century. B.C. Orsi identifies in the Furmica district, in an unspecified area, a cemetery from which a Latin title comes.
Bibliography:
ORSI, P., Christian epigraph of Palazzolo Acreide, RAC, VIII, 1931, p. 297. CURCIO, GM, Greek tombs and traces of Roman buildings in c.da Furmica, BdA, 1966, pp. 92-93; MANGANARO, G., Necropolis and farm. Graffiti and funerary inscriptions from Eastern Sicily, Helikon, 1962, pp. 485-501. CURCIO, A., Remains of ancient farms in the Tellaro valley, Sicilia Archeologica, 41, 1979, pp. 83-86
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
(Text source: survey form no.685 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
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