Cabu Abbas
The Castello di Cabu Abbas ( German beginning of water in the sense of source ) is located north of Olbia in the province of Sassari in Sardinia . It is a megalithic fortification over 50 m in diameter around the summit of the 246 m high Punta Casteddu. Cabu Abbas has the shape of a relatively well-preserved five-meter-high wall ring that surrounds a small tholosnuraghe (called Riu Mulino). The place should not be confused with the church of Nostra Signora di Cabu Abbas , as well as the giant tomb of Cabu Abbas, which are located near Torralba .
The crumbling nuraghe belongs to the group with two niches in the central room. The number of niches in nuraghi varies between zero and three. This overall concept, unique in Sardinia, dates from 1600 to 1300 BC. Dated BC ( Middle Bronze Age ). Nuraghi are prehistoric and early historical towers of the Bonnanaro culture (2200–1600 BC) and the subsequent nuraghi culture (around 1600–400 BC) in Sardinia, which is inextricably linked with it .
The complex is located on the highest point of a granite ridge , about one kilometer east of the church of Nostra Signora di Cabu Abbas . A donkey or cart path leads up from their old cemetery, from which a path branches off to the northern of the two passages in the wall ring. Up here is a rich spring that the Romans used to supply Olbia with water via the Sa Rughitulla aqueduct . The place is connected to the water cult. During the 1936 excavations, a nuragic bronze was found depicting a woman with an amphora on her head.
On May 1st the folk festival “Cabbu Abbas” takes place in Olbia with a poetry and song contest.
literature
- R. d'Oriano: Il nuraghe di Cabu Abbas o di Riu Mulinu. In: MA Amucanu, R. d'Oriano, A. Sanciu: Da Olbia a Terranova, Itinerari storici archeologici monumentali. Carta Stampa, 2004, pp. 31-33
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Coordinates: 40 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ N , 9 ° 31 ′ 15 ″ E