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Palazzo Acreide, Sicily, Italy. Excavations in 2015

2016, 54-55

Roksana Chowaniec

0000-0003-3882-8797

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology

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11.01.2016

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Abstrakt

The ancient town of akrai/acrae is located near the today’s town of Palazzolo Acreide, in the south-eastern part of Sicily. Initially, the ancient settlement was a Greek colony, established by Syracuse in 664/663 BC, in the central part of the Hyblaean Mountains (cf. CHOWANIEC 2015b). Thesub-colony was founded asastronghold at the western borders of Syracuse in order to control the access to the mother-colony (COPANI 2008: 16–17). The town developed over centuries, with an intensive architectural boom in the mid-3rd c. BC. Thefall of Syracusein 212 BC resulted in the town becoming a part of the first Roman province. In 2009, thanks to the cooperation agreement between the University of Warsaw and the then Parco Archeologico di Eloro and the Soprintendenza dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa, interdisciplinary ar1 I would like to thank all the members of thearchaeological team for excellent collaboration. Extraordinary thanks go to Rosalba Panvini, PhD – former Director of the Soprintendenza dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa, to Maria Musumeci, PhD – present Director, and to Rosa Lanteri, PhD – Director of the Archaeological Department of the Soprintendenza dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa. 2 In this excavation campaign, lasting from 1 September to 30 October, the following scientists took part: Marta fituła, MA; Prof. Jolanta Młynarczyk; Prof. Adam Łajtar; Tomasz Więcek, MA; Anna Gręzak, PhD; Krzysztof Domżalski, PhD; Prof. Jerzy Żelazowski; Miron Bogacki, PhD; Laurent Chrzanovski, PhD; Wiesław Małkowski, MA; Prof. Krzysztof Misiewicz; Monika Stobiecka, MA; Marcin Wagner, MA; Monika Więch, MA; Joanna Żero, MA; Jolanta Wielgus, MA; Jacek Wielgus, Prof. Krzysztof Chmielewski, Hanna Rokośna, MA; Julia Burdajewicz, MA; Maciej Baran, MA, from the Department of Art Conservation and Restoration of the Academy of fine Arts in Warsaw, as well as thirty-six students of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw. The excavations are possible thanks to a grant of National Science Centre (UMO-2016/21/B/HS3/ 00026), a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (SPUB 4815/E–343/SPUB/2015–1),as wellas private sponsors. T chaeological research begun1 (CHOWANIEC 2015a). The archaeological excavations within the town started in 2011. The research in 2015 was a continuation of the previous field-works (CHOWANIEC 2015b) and explored a residential complex discovered during a geophysical survey in 2009 (MISIEWICZ 2015: 89–100; CHOWANIEC, MISIEWICZ 2016).

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