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YVLA (Ancient city) SICILY
Heraea, in the south of the island, on the road from Syracuse to Agrigentum. It is doubtful from which of these three places the Hyblaean honey came, so frequently mentioned by the poets.
The ancient Roman itineraries locate the site between Akrai and Calvisiana.
It must have been an indigenous site of considerable importance and, from the
first half of the 6th c. B.C., one which came into friendly contact with Greek
colonists. This is attested by grave goods of mixed nature which are found in
the Greek cemetery in the Rito district to the S of Lower Ragusa. The site of
the Sikel city must have corresponded to the height of the Castello near Lower
Ragusa, while Sikel graves, the earliest of which belong to the so-called Finocchito
culture (750-630 B.C.), were discovered in the nearby grottos of Molino and S.
Maria delle Scale. In the Pendente district have been found traces of the Greek
settlement, whose necropoleis occupied a large strip of the plateau which faces
Ragusa to the S. On the height of Rito 76 Greek graves, dating between 570 and
490 B.C., were explored; together with the often considerable grave gifts, the
fragmentary statue of a lion was found. Other sculptural fragments, always in
the area of the Greek cemeteries, were found near the present railroad station
of Upper Ragusa.
Not only the importance in the late Roman period of the road that
passed through Hybla and joined Akrai at the ford of the Dirillo attests continuity
of life in this ancient center, but especially the cemeteries of the Hellenistic,
Roman, and Byzantine periods, found in large numbers on the plateau to the S of
the habitation center. Of these necropoleis one can visit the Latomia in the district
Tabuna.
The recently established Archaeological Museum in Ragusa houses the
finds from the site of Hybla and from the entire province.
G. Scrofani, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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