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  • Bruncu Mogumu
  • Sinnai
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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • Province of Cagliari
  • Sinnai

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Monuments

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Chronology

  • 1200 BC - 600 BC

Season

    • The excavation has highlighted a small Nuraghic temple of rectangular plan, absidal on the short southern side, divided into two areas and located inside an enclosure. The building was built in blocks of arenaria, brought here from a great distance, while the foundations were in blocks of local limestone schist. Some of the blocks of arenaria, of trapezoidal form, were in orderly courses. The deeper layers have yielded exclusively locally made finds while in the later strata (Second Iron Age), Phoenician material was recovered together with the local products. The _terminus ante quem_ of the use of the building, after the collapse, is given by the finds of the Orientalizing period deposited in the niche obtained on the already-collapsed wall of the building. The oldest layer can be placed between the end of the Bronze and beginning of the Iron ages by the presence of large oval bowls with vertical handles, and dates of life of the building before its collapse. Originally the two spaces were communicating and only later was this access closed with a wall somewhat thinner than the original walls. The building continued to be used even after the collapse of the upper part, as testifies the continued use of the hearth installed at the north-east corner of the southern area. The monument is of interest for the fact that, in a stage both after the collapse and before the Orientalizing objects of the niche were deposited (probably during the Second Iron Age), the building continued to be frequenced by nuraghic people with trading relationships with the Phoenicians. It is probable that these contacts occurred on site, though this has not yet been proven. Many questions still remain to be clarified with the next excavation.

Bibliography

    • M.R. Manunza, 1999, Relazione preliminare sull’attività svolta nel Comune di Sinnai dal 1994 al 1997, in Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica per le Province di Cagliari e Oristano, 16: 283-304.
    • M.R. Manunza, 2002, Testimonianze di cultura materiale dal bronzo medio all’eta’ del ferro nell’agro di Sinnai, in Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica per le Province di Cagliari e Oristano, 19: 17-101.
    • M.R. Manunza, c.s., Scoperta e scavo di un edificio d’età protostorica a Bruncu Mogumu (Sinnai) - I° e II° campagna di scavo, in Atti del Convegno “La civiltà nuragica. Nuove acquisizioni – (Senorbì, dicembre 2000).