Archaeological site of Agnone - Murgo
Name
Greek settlement; settlement of late antiquity. (A2.5)
Description
Roman remains from the late imperial era were reported on the coastal plain near the farm of Baron Riso, known as del Murgo, as well as late Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, architectural fragments such as columns, Corinthian capitals, a fragment of a marble cinerary urn with the PARENTES written, a fragment of a marble tile with TROV stamp datable to the IV-V century. AD A previous settlement is evidenced by the discovery of Greek pottery near the Basilica del Murgo, a building from the Frederick period, which remained unfinished
Historical Information
The work of a nineteenth-century hermit refers to a place far from the sea, also called Lo Sperone, a late-antique fundus that was part of the possessions of Santa Tecla, in the Murgo territory, near Agnone.
Bibliographic sources
Amico V., Topographical Dictionary of Sicily, 1858. Vigo A., Neofito (ie, Historical outline of the Grotte del Greco, at the foot of Mount Assia in Sicily, of the Saints who inhabited them, of the Image of Maria Mater Adonai and of the Hermitage under this title) 1872, p.37; Orsi, Agnone (Municipality of Augusta), “NSc”, 1899a, pp. 277-278: Agnello, Swabian architecture in Sicily, 1935, pp. 233-248; Lanteri R., Augusta and its territory. Elements for an archaeological map, 1997, pp. 17-18.
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
(Source text of survey form n.24 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
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