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 | | End of the VII century B.C.-IV century A.D. The Phoenician, and later Roman, shrine in Cuccureddus was set on a panoramic hill in the west entrance of Capo Carbonara, by the mouth of the stream “Foxi”, in those times navigable. |
 | | It can be explained, in this way, the presence of places and objects dedicated to the cults, but also of the men who took care of the temple and the port which, probably, was at the bottom of the hill. |
 | | Among the objects found, the most interesting are the votive offerings, dating back the Republican age (II and I century B.C.), which reproduce human body parts such as phallus, ears, legs, arms, and whose meaning is certainly referred to the type of request asked to the worshipped deity. |
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