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Modern Description: Missanello is a site located on a cliff on the north bank of the Middle Agri valley. The inclusion of Missanello as a fortified centre is problematic. It is most probably a conflation with nearby Gallicchio Vetere. The only reference to Missanello (to the best of my knowledge) as a Lucanian fortified centre is made by De Gennaro. He gives no information about the site other than its name and location. Missanello is not intervisible with any site in the area with exception of nearby Gallicchio Vetere ‐ just 2km away. The single reference provided in De Gennaro’s I Circuiti Murari Della Lucania Antica is from de La Genière’s 1983 article in which she mentions Missanello in passing as part of a general reference to the proliferation of fortified centres in the uplands of Basilicata: on trouve ces fortifications un peu partout sur les hauteurs de la Basilicate (Roccanova, Cersosimo, Missanello...) It would seem ‐ as is often the practise ‐ that Missanello (as the nearest known local centre) is only mentioned as a guide to the location of gallichon Vetere. Missanello has however been included for reference.

Info: Myers Lucania

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

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