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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 659 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TERRANOVA , a See also:

town of See also:Sicily, on the S. See also:coast, in the See also:province of See also:Caltanisetta, 74 M. by See also:rail and 41 M. See also:direct E.S.E. of See also:Girgenti. Pop. (1901) 22,019. The poorly built See also:modern town contains no buildings of See also:interest or importance; it stands on a See also:sand-See also:hill near the See also:sea, with a fertile See also:plain (the See also:ancient See also:Campi Geloi) to the N. of it. It has some See also:trade but no See also:port, only an open roadstead. It almost certainly occupies the site of the ancient See also:Gela (q.v.). Outside it on the E. are scanty remains of a Doric See also:temple (480–440 B.C.?) of which a single See also:pillar only remains, which was still See also:standing in the 18th See also:century (height about 26; ft., See also:lower See also:diameter 51 ft.); here some painted decorative terracottas have been found (see Orsi in Atti del Congresso di Scienze Storiche, See also:Rome, 1904, V. 188). Between it and the modern town the See also:stylobate of a large temple was found in 1906. This seems to have been constructed towards the end of the 7th century B.G. on the site of a still earlier edifice. The stylobate See also:measures 115 by 58 ft. A large number of decorative terracottas were found, among them a small helmeted See also:head of See also:Athena: her name recurs upon the See also:lip of a large pithos, and it is probable that the temple was dedicated to her.

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object that can be dated after the end of the 6th century B.C., and it is therefore probable that this temple was destroyed when the other was constructed, and that the latter also was dedicated to Athena. On the W. of the town, on the See also:Capo See also:Soprano, was the ancient See also:necropolis, where many tombs of the See also:Greek See also:period have been discovered; the See also:objects found, including many See also:fine See also:Attic vases, are partly in private collections at Terranova itself, partly in See also:foreign museums, while the results of later excavations, including some large See also:terracotta sarcophagi, are in the museum at See also:Syracuse. See Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1901, 307; 1902, 408; 1907, 38.

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