NETUM
(Noto) Siracusa, Sicily.
Originally
a Sikel center which, during the Greek period, was under
Syracusan domination. The city, which extended over the
Hill of the Alveria, was ca. 1 km in length. Its remains
were destroyed by the earthquake of 1693. Of the monuments, more than 500 graves in the shape of artificial
grottos (lOth-7th c. B.C) are still preserved in the crags
to the W; the grave goods are in the Museo Civico of
Noto, in Siracusa, Agrigento, and Palermo. Of the Greek
monuments remain the gymnasium (which is located to
the SE and comprises two large units connected by a
small rock-cut stairway), and two rock-cut heroa. From
the gymnasium comes an inscription (
CIG 240), at present in the Museo Civico.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Orsi,
NSc (1897); L. Bernabò Brea,
La Sicilia prima dei Greci (1959); V. La Rosa,
Archeologia sicula e barocca per la represa del problema di Noto Antica (1971).
A. CURCIO
