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Modern Description: Torricelli is a small site situated high on hill overlooking a long stretch of the Alento River valley and is situated at the confluence of the Fiumicello Badolato, one of the main access routes to Moio Della Civitella. Torricelli could easily observe movement around Greek Velia some 7 kilometres away including ships along the Tyrrhenian coast. It is intervisible with only one other site, Moio Della Civitella, with which it would have been able to perform surveillance duties for. It could have relayed information about movement along the Alento Valley, the main route to the coast and Velia, and along the Fiumicello Badolato and its fluvial valleys which constituted some the main access routes to Moio Della Civitella. There is little left of the Lucanian fortification wall, but some blocks of the type described by Greco appear to have been reused in some domestic structures on the site.

Info: Myers Lucania

Brett Andrew Myers, Visual Connectivity and Control in Ancient Lucania, MPhil thesis 2018, Univ. of Sydney

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