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Archival complex: Prefettura di Agrigento, Intendenza e atti della Prefettura di Girgenti 1827-1887, busta n° 486
Sender: Intendenza del Valle di Girgenti
Recipient: Commissione di Antichità e Belle Arti di Palermo
Place: Girgenti
Date: April 20, 1836

Content: Memory on the excavations carried out in the temple of Hercules, where the marble spine was found, with a technical annex in which the request for the plan of the Temple of Hercules carried out by Lo Presti is addressed; the removal of debris cluttering the temple; the carefully performed removal of debris and boulders near the columns; the discovery of a piece of marble probably belonging to the back of the statue; the discovery of a lion's head near one of the columns of the portico of the temple; the surveillance of Ognibene at the Temple of Hercules; the surveillance activity of canon Eraclide Lo Presti; the direction of the excavations by Bentivegna.