Friday, April 23, 2010
Last Wednesday at Marsala in the conference room of the Archaeological Museum "Baglio Anselmi" was held a seminar organized by the Superintendent in the twelfth week of Cultural Heritage.
Dr Rossella Giglio, manager of the Service for Archaeological Heritage of the Superintendent of Trapiscriz_iside_intera.jpgani held a conference "presentation of recent archaeological discoveries in Lilibeo" to contextualize the latest finding of the most important area of \u200b\u200bresearch archaeological park, of which I spoke to Prof. Antonietta Brugnone University of Palermo: The epigraph found. Brief notes on the cult of Isis Lilibeo.
It is a stone inscription that attests to the existence of the cult of Isis Lilibeo which was confirmed by the discovery of the shrine of the goddess in the course of archaeological research directed by Dr. Giglio.
The presence of Egyptian cults are extremely important for the new Roman city of Lilibeo, true crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean, which flowed to all traffic African heading to Rome and the Italian peninsula. Registration
found during the excavation of 2008 has now been reconstructed and integrated whole with a second large fragment that was kept in the warehouses of the 1903 Whitaker Museum Island of Mozia: thanks to the careful recognition of Dr. Toti, curator of the museum island, it was possible to identify the fragment bearing the labels of origin indicated with "Terre di Capo Trapani Boeo" exactly the same location of the excavation, in the archaeological park, is now been possible to reconstruct the entire membership, which was then carefully deciphered by Professor Brugnone.
During the ceremony, at the end of the conference, was presented to the public the column, in a showcase in the exhibition hall Lilibeo the Baglio Anselmi, in the presence of Dr. Lily to the Superintendent of Dr. Carollo, Secretary-General Whitaker Foundation, and Prof. Nigro, University La Sapienza of Rome and director of the Foundation. *** [...]
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