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Encyclopedia Britannica



NOTO

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 824 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NOTO , a city of Sicily, in the province of Syracuse, and 20 m. S.W. of it by
rail
 , 520 ft. above sea-level. Pop. Nor) 22,564. The present town, rebuilt after the
earthquake
  of 1693, has some fine buildings of the early 18th
century
 . The older town lies 5 M. direct to the north (1378 ft.). It was the ancient Netum, a city of Sicel origin, left to
Hiero
  II. by the Romans by the treaty of 263 B.C. and mentioned by Cicero as a foederata civitas (Verr. v. 51.. 133), and by Pliny as Latinae conditionis (H.N. iii. 8. 14). The remains of this city are almost entirely hidden beneath the ruins of the medieval town, except three chambers cut in the
rock
 , one of which is shown, by an inscription in the library at Noto, to have belonged to the gymnasium, while the other two were heroa, or shrines of heroes. But explorations have brought to light four cemeteries of the third Sicel period, and one of the
Greek
  period, of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. There are also catacombs of the Christian period and some
Byzantine
  tombs. See P. Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1897, 699o. Four miles to the S. of Noto, on the left bank of the Tellaro (Helorus) (E. Pais, Atakta, Pisa, 1891, p. 75 seq.) stands a stone column about 35 ft. in height, which is believed to be a memorial of the surrender of
Nicias
 . This is uncertain; but, in any case, in the 3rd
century
  B.C. a tomb was excavated in the rectangular area which surrounds it, destroying apparently a pre-existing tomb. The later burial belongs to the necropolis of the small town of Heloron, 750 yds. to the S.E., some remains of which have been discovered. It was a small advanced post of Syracuse, belonging probably to the 6th century B.C. See P. Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1899, 241.


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