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Archival complex: Prefettura di Agrigento, Intendenza e atti della Prefettura di Girgenti 1827-1887, busta n° 485
Place: Palermo
Date: 1864

Content: 1864 June 11, Palermo. The booklet contains the two-volume Bulletin of the Commission of Antiquities and Fine Arts in Sicily. Information and descriptions of the excavations, findings and discoveries are given. In this case, for Agrigento, reference is made to the discovery of a "tessellated mosaic", discovered in 1857 near the Chapel of Falaride, which the administration of the time, not knowing what to do, decided to cover.