Timpone della Motta
Archaeological site on a hill near Francavilla Marittima, with an Oenotrian and Greek sanctuary among the oldest in southern Italy.
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About the museum
The Timpone della Motta is a hill about 280 metres above sea level, two kilometres south-west of Francavilla Marittima, overlooking the Sibari plain and the Gulf of Taranto. Inhabited already in the Bronze Age, it became in the Iron Age an Oenotrian settlement and then a sanctuary with some of the oldest Greek-type temples on the peninsula.
Towards the second half of the 7th century BC, colonists from Sibari took control of it; in the 4th century BC the Brettii conquered the region and the hill was abandoned. Research was carried out in particular by Paola Zancani Montuoro. Among the finds are a large loom, traces of textile production, an altar, the sequence of several temples and an inscription in which an athlete dedicates part of his prize to Athena, which suggests a cult of the goddess. Most of the finds are kept in the Museo archeologico nazionale della Sibaritide (National Archaeological Museum of the Sibaritide).
Highlights
- Oenotrian and Greek sanctuary with Archaic-period temples
- Traces of textile production and a large loom
- Inscription of an athlete dedicated to Athena
- View over the Sibari plain
- Visitors per year
- approx. 7,400
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