Timpone della Motta

Timpone della Motta
The remains of Temple I on the acropolis of the Timpone della Motta
Timpone della Motta is located in Italy
Timpone della Motta
Shown within Italy
LocationFrancavilla Marittima, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy
Coordinates39°48′28″N 16°22′7″E / 39.80778°N 16.36861°E / 39.80778; 16.36861
TypeSettlement, later sanctuary
History
PeriodsMiddle Bronze Age to Classical Greece

The Timpone della Motta is a hill 2 km to the southwest of Francavilla Marittima in Calabria, Italy that was inhabited since the Middle Bronze Age. In the Iron Age the hill was the site of an Oenotrian settlement. The Oenotrians were influenced by the culture of the Greek colonists from nearby Sybaris, who eventually took over the site in the second half of the seventh century and transformed it into their acropolis and an important sanctuary, which was notable as the site of the first known ancient Greek temples of Magna Graecia on the Italian Peninsula.

The hill was abandoned when the Bruttians conquered the region in the fourth century BC.