Giant grave of Biristeddi
The giant grave of Biristeddi is located near Galtelli , in the province of Nuoro in Sardinia . The buildings called "Tumbas de los zigantes" and ( Italian Tombe dei Giganti ) in Sardu are the largest prenuraghic cult structures in Sardinia and are among the latest megalithic structures in Europe . The 321 known giant tombs are monuments of the Bronze Age Bonnanaro culture (1,800-1,500 BC), the forerunner culture of the Nuragher.
Type sequence
Structurally, giant tombs appear in two variants. The systems with portal steles and exedra belong to the older northern Sardinian type. In later systems, the exedra consists of a rectangular façade made of processed and layered stone blocks ( Italian tipo dolmenico dolmen type) instead of monolithic steles . The giant grave of Biristeddi is a newer type (with a square facade).
description
It is one of the few with precisely hewn trachyte blocks , as they are known from the fountain temples and can be found on the chamber wall as beveled blocks. The semicircular forecourt is littered with megaliths of the destroyed exedra , including a block with a toothed frieze . The excavation finds from 1937, including a blue Mycenaean glass river pearl, were lost.
Nearby are the nuragic villages of Purgatoriu (purgatory) and Serra Orrios .
See also
literature
- Giovanni Lilliu : Sculture della Sardegna nuragica . Edizioni La Zattera, Cagliari 1966.
- Giovanni Lilliu: Betili e betilini nelle tombe di giganti della Sardegna . Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1995, ISBN 88-218-0499-2 , ( Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Storiche e Filologiche: Memorie Ser. 9, Vol. 6, Fasc. 4).
- Rainer Pauli: Sardinia. History culture landscape. Voyages of discovery on one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean . 7th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1368-3 , ( DuMont documents. DuMont art travel guide ), p. 340.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 20 '14.3 " N , 9 ° 33' 6.5" E