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el 2006, una missione dell'Institute of Fine Arts della New York University da me diretta, originariamente in convenzione con la Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Trapani e in collaborazione con il Museo Archeologico di Palermo "Antonino Salinas," e ora in convenzione con il Parco Archeologico di Selinunte,1 ha intrapreso un progetto di indagine topografica, architettonica e archeologica del settore meridionale del grande santuario urbano di Selinunte ( . Il primo oggetto delle nostre indagini è stato il Tempio B: uno degli edifici più interessanti di Selinunte per il contesto storico-culturale cui appartiene (la fase di controllo punico sulla città) e per il ruolo dei suoi intonaci colorati nel dibattito ottocentesco sulla policromia dell'architettura greca; ma anche uno dei templi meno inda-