Cassibile

A Late Bronze Age settlement and cemetery containing 2,000 rock-cut chamber tombs near Syracuse in southeast Sicily. It is the type site of a Late Bronze Age phase - Pantalica II - of the early 1st millennium BC. The Pantalica culture was characterized by large urban settlements. Artifacts include a distinctive buff painted ware with plume or 'feather' motifs, c 1250-1000 BC, and a number of typical bronze types, including stilted and thick-arc fibulae and shaft-hole axes.

A Late Bronze Age settlement and large cemetery of rock-cut chamber tombs in southeast Sicily, of the early 1st millennium bc. It belongs to the Pantalica culture, which is characterized by large urban settlements, of which Cassibile was presumably one, since although the settlement site itself has not been securely identified, some 2000 tombs have been found. Characteristic artefacts include a distinctive painted ware with plume motifs and a number of typical bronze types, including stilted and thick arc fibulae and shaft-hole axes.