Anaktoron at Pantalika
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37.134221, 15.025667
- Representative Locations:
- Anaktoron at Pantalika (2000 BC - AD 850) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
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- Anaktoron di Pantalica (Italian, modern)
- Anaktoron at Pantalika located at Pantalica (unspecified date range)
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This building was first investigated by Paolo Orsi, who found Bronze Age material in the vicinity and identified the megalithic, polygonal masonry of one end as the remains of a major Bronze Age structure, which he dubbed the "Anaktoron" (Prince's Palace). If it can indeed be associated with the 12th-11th centuries BC, it is one of the earliest structures at Pantalica. Orsi suggested that the form of the building showed Mycenaean influences, since Mycenaean settlements were established along Sicily's Ionian coast in this period. It has been compared to buildings A and B of the Mycenaean settlement at Thapsos.
On the other hand, most of the remains of the building and the objects associated with the final phase of its use date to the Byzantine period (6th-11th c. AD), and more recent interpretations insist that the entire structure should be associated with Byzantine rather than prehistoric settlement at the site.
Lewin Ernest Staine, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, and Tom Elliott, 'Anaktoron at Pantalika: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/735757405> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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