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The coinage of Iaitas in the context of West Sicily

Spectacularly situated on a mountain top 852 m above sea level, with stunning views especially to the south, Monte Iato has been the site of annual excavations by the Archaologisches Institut of the University of Zurich since 1971. They have yielded a wealth of information about this Sicilian hill-town (ancient Iaitas) which lies 40 km southwest of Palermo, and especially about its Late Hellenistic phase: the agora with its attendant stoas and temples, a pair of bouleuteria, the theatre and a number of houses, as well as parts of the city defences and necropoleis, have all been laid bare.1 Like many towns in Sicily inconveniently situated on waterless hilltops, it gradually went into decline during the Early Empire and never recovered, although some sort of activity continued in a few parts of the site down into the early 5th c. A.D. Although the quality of preservation has been compromised by early mediaeval occupation on top (the site was eventually destroyed and abandoned in 1246), Monte Iato, thanks to the efforts of the Swiss team over more than four decades, is one of the best-known of the many ancient hilltowns of inland Sicily, and the quantity and quality of the information that it has produced are comparable only to that from Morgantina.