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The colossal torso of the god Asclepius, kept into the Castello Maniace during the Spanish domination of Sicily, is now one of the most significant examples of roman statuary in the Syracuse Museum. The recent restoration of the Castello Maniace has been celebrated in 2008 with an exhibition of archaeological finds obtained in the various excavatio...
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... 90 cm e profonda 37 cm, conservata per due frammenti ricomposti del torso e della testa, fu rinvenuta "in mezzo alle anticaglie nello scavare le fondamenta dei baluardi", cioè nell'istmo di Ortigia durante lo scavo delle fondazioni per la fortifìcazione spagnola, intorno alla metà del XVI secolo. Custodita fino al 1810 nel Castello Maniace ( fig. 2), la principale piazzaforte spagnola di Siracusa (GIARRIZZO 1989;CASSATARO 1997;MAURICI 2001), e nota come il "Don Marmoreo", la statua del dio fu reimpiegata all'interno del castello con delle modifiche radicali, che ne alterarono l'iconografia, e verosimilmente collocata in una nicchia o fissata ad una parete, come dimostrerebbe il ...
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