Una insolita statuetta di Dionysos da un bothros presso il Tempio Ionico di Siracusa

The unusual terracotta of Dionysus and other figurines included in this article come from a votive pit (bothros) discovered near the Ionian Temple of Syracuse during the excavations carried out between 1973 and 1976. This study, commissioned to me by F. Fouilland in 2016, constitutes a short appendix to the broader work that she addressed on the context and on all the materials and published here. The article is completed by an Appendix with some figurines of the votive deposits found underneath the foundation of the Ionian Temple, the same from which the well-known sphinx head, a masterpiece of archaic Sicilian clay craftsmanship, comes. In order to better frame the discovery of these figurines I offer a brief excursus on the archaeological researches conducted in this area of Ortigia, since the investigations of P. Orsi to those carried out in more recent years. It is an area that, in addition to the exceptional discovery of the Artemision and the Athenaion, presents an uninterrupted succession of evidence, especially of worship, from the 8th century B.C.