Naxos. Marble stele with a dedication to the goddess Enyo, incised in the script of the island of Naxos in the Cyclades, from the great suburban sanctuary and datable to the 7th century BC (Archaeological Museum of Syracuse). This piece of marble, found in the city of Naxos in Sicily, was first published in 1985 by Margherita Guarducci. The dedicatory inscription to the goddess Enyo, a very ancient warrior deity also worshipped in the Cycladic islands of the Aegean and at Cyrene in North Africa, and the letter forms point to Cycladic Naxos, indicating a close link between the two Naxos. Photograph: Alfio Garozzo.
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