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![]() Morgantina declined rapidly after supporting, Carthage in the Second Punic War in 211 BC (Singleton 2006). ![]() It is in central Sicily, close to the modern town of Aidone, however its exact location was lost for many years. The Hellenistic settlement of Morgantina was founded around 1000 BC (Wilkerson 2001: 64), part of the ancient Kingdom of Syracuse (Stille 1999: 58). A silver hoard removed from the Sicilian site of Morgantina by looters around in 1979/80 which was eventually purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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