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title: Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily)
author: Salvatore Piccolo
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7478/princes-tomb-cava-lazzaro-ragusa-sicily/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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# Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily)

_Authored by [Salvatore Piccolo](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/salvo.piccolo59/)_

## Image File

[![Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/7478.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/7478.jpg)

## Image Caption

Castelluccian [Culture](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/culture/) [tomb](https://www.worldhistory.org/tomb/) (early [bronze age](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Bronze_Age/), 2200-1400 BCE) excavated in the rock, with a double-room and eight false pillars on the facade, in bas-relief, finely decorated with chevron engraving, triangles, circles and dots right inside. Some scholars think these signs relate to a solar cult, especially for the pointillist circles on the top of the columns; others have interpreted the linear series as an extreme stylization of the deceased. In the same area, discovered at the end of the 19th century CE, was one of the mysterious "globule bones" (pieces of long bones of animals, whose length scarcely exceeds ten centimetres, on which have been realized some globules in relief) which have also been found in [Troy](https://www.worldhistory.org/troy/).

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## About the Author

Salvatore Piccolo is an archaeologist. His excavations include the dolmens of Sicily where in "Cava dei Servi", he found human remains and ceramic fragments that have unravelled the mystery of the function and chronology of Mediterranean dolmens.
- [Linkedin Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sal)

## Cite This Work

### APA
Piccolo, S. (2017, October 23). Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily). *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7478/princes-tomb-cava-lazzaro-ragusa-sicily/>
### Chicago
Piccolo, Salvatore. "Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily)." *World History Encyclopedia*, October 23, 2017. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7478/princes-tomb-cava-lazzaro-ragusa-sicily/>.
### MLA
Piccolo, Salvatore. "Prince's Tomb (Cava Lazzaro, Ragusa, Sicily)." *World History Encyclopedia*, 23 Oct 2017, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7478/princes-tomb-cava-lazzaro-ragusa-sicily/>.

## License & Copyright

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