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PIANO DEL CASAZZI Sicily.

This small site lies ca. 16 km N of Caltagirone, in the arid hills overlooking the valley of Katane. It occupies a hilltop that was fortified with a wall and square towers; extensive traces of these remain. An adjacent Sikel necropolis with chamber tombs has been despoiled, but to be associated with this early habitation is a major bronze hoard, found nearby at San Cataldo and dated to the Finocchito period (730-650 B.C.). The Greek fortifications have been attributed to Hippokrates of Gela (ca. 495 B.C.), but without further excavation this suggestion must remain tentative.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

P. Orsi, NSc (1907) 488f; BPI (1927) 50f; T. Dunbabin, The Western Greeks (1948) 125f, 379f; L. Bernabò Brea, Sicily before the Greeks (1960) 190f.

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The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. Stillwell, Richard. MacDonald, William L. McAlister, Marian Holland. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press. 1976.

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