Thapsos

This article is about the prehistoric village in Sicily. For the medicinal herb, see Verbascum thapsus. For the North African city, see Thapsus.
Thapsos
Θάψος (in Greek)
Thapsos had a large necropolis of cave tombs with vertical entrance shafts or dromos entry-corridors.
Thapsos is located in Italy
Thapsos
Shown within Italy
LocationPriolo Gargallo, Province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Coordinates37°09′13″N 15°13′46″E / 37.15361°N 15.22944°E / 37.15361; 15.22944
TypeSettlement
Site notes
ConditionRuined
OwnershipPublic
ManagementSoprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Siracusa
Public accessYes
WebsiteMuseo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi

Thapsos (Greek: Θάψος) was a prehistoric village in Sicily of the middle Bronze Age. It was found by the Italian archaeologist Paolo Orsi on the small peninsula of Magnisi, near Priolo Gargallo. In its vicinity was born the Thapsos culture, one of the most important prehistoric cultures in Sicily (identified with the people of Sicani).

History

A rock-cut tomb in the necropolis

The site is notable for its village – the first known city in Sicily[citation needed] – and for its rich necropolis. David Abulafia writes:

A settlement at Thapsos, an offshore island in eastern Sicily, offers evidence of a sophisticated, imported culture, Mycenaean in origin. The settlers created a grid-like town with streets up to four metres wide, spacious houses built round courtyards, and tombs full of Late Helladic wares from the Greek lands, suggesting 'a veritable foreign colony on the site'. Indeed, the closest analogy to the layout of the houses in Thapsos is to be found at the other end of the Mycenaean world, on Cyprus, at Enkomi near Famagusta. It is almost as if a blueprint for a trading colony had been created and then transformed into reality at both ends of the Mycenaean world. Thapsos has yielded very many small perfume containers of Mycenaean origin. For it was a centre of industry, specializing in the production of perfumed oils for an 'international' market. But Thapsos was not simply an offshoot of Mycenae. It produced plenty of coarse grey pottery in Sicilian styles, indicating that Thapsos contained a mixed population.[1]

Thucydides writes that Thapsos was a colony of Megara founded by the same people who founded Trotilon and Megara Hyblaea.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ David Abulafia, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Oxford University Press, 2011; ISBN 019975263X), pp. 34-35.
  2. ^ Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 6.4

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