The giant tomb of Sa Senepida

Series of types of Sardinian megaliths

The giant tomb of Sa Senepida also Senipida ( Italian Tomba di giganti Sa Senipida ) is located below the hill with the Nuraghe of the same name made of cyclops masonry , southeast of Orgosolo in the province of Nuoro in Sardinia .

The buildings called “Tumbas de sos zigantes” in Sardu and “Tombe dei Giganti” in Italian (plur.) Are the largest pre- Nuragic 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 (approx. 2200–1600 BC), which is the precursor of the Nuragic culture .

Model with phallic portal stele and exedra

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 facade made of processed and layered stone blocks, instead of monolithic steles . The giant grave of Sa Senepida is of the older type (with portal stele).

description

The gallery is mostly filled with earth and rubble, but a rectangular (as in the giant tomb of Oridda ) portal stele with a small opening is intact. The exedra is in poor condition.

About 400 m away is the hardly better preserved giant grave of Su Milhosu, also with a rectangular portal stele.

See also

• List of prehistoric and protohistoric archaeological sites in Sardinia

literature

• 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).
• Vincenzo Santoni: Il segno del potere ("The signs of power"). In: Dino Sanna (Ed.): Nur. La misteriosa civiltà dei Sardi. Cariplo - Cassa di risparmio delle provincie lombarde, Milan 1980, pp. 141-180.

Web links

• Description Engl. and pictures

Coordinates: 40 ° 8 ′ 10.8 "  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 23.3"  E