On Thursday November 28th at 6 p.m. Giulio Amara (postdoctoral fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore – Archaeological Park of Siracusa, Eloro, Villa del Tellaro and Akrai) will hold the conference Nuove Ricerche sull’acropoli di Siracusa. Spazio del sacro e ritualità a Ortigia in età arcaica at the German Historical Institute in Rome.
Abstract A century later, the “methodical explorations” undertaken by Paolo Orsi in the area around the Athenaion of Ortygia, the acropolis of Syracuse (1910-1917), have been thoroughly re-examined, resulting in the complete re-edition of the excavations and archaeological materials (“Archeologia del Culto a Siracusa. Depositi votivi e pratiche rituali intorno all’Athenaion di Ortigia”, Milano: LED 2023). Thanks to a gradual hermeneutic process intertwining the excavation data – published and unpublished – the analysis of the architecture and the systematic investigation of the votive deposits – still largely unpublished – it is proposed a new diachronic reconstruction of the central sanctuary of Ortygia during the Archaic Greek period (8th – early 5th cent. BCE), from an architectural, ritual and cult point of view. This conference presents this broad research, focusing on some of the results.
The volume, funded by SAET, is freely downloadable at the address: https://doi.org/10.7359/1193-2023-amara-siracusa.
