Masone Perdu

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Masone Perdu (seldom also Masone è Perdu; Italian Tomba a circolo di Masone Perdu ) is a west-east oriented gallery grave in a curb-framed, segmented round hill near Corte Noa in the east of the province of Oristano in Sardinia .

The chamber of the complex, which is unique on the island, consists of trapezoidal dry stone masonry that ends on its broad side in an apse . A trilith entrance divides the chamber area into an anteroom and main chamber, in front of which there is a short corridor. At the level of the entrance to the main chamber, the round hill is provided with a transverse wall. Statue menhirs come from the immediate vicinity and there is also the nine-meter-long so-called "Allée couverte" by Corte Noa, which is similar in structure, but is located in the long hill.

The plants are related to the cultures of Abealzu-Filigosa in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Connected, but show architectural influences of the bell beaker culture that reached the island at this time.

Despite the clear connection between the statue menhirs and the cult of the dead, in Sardinia (unlike in Corsica) it has so far not been possible to establish a connection to certain types of graves. The grave types are unsuitable as a distinguishing feature of the cultures in Sardinia . None of the Sardinian Copper Age cultures shows a preference for certain burial sites, be it natural caves, dolmens , domus de Janas , gallery graves or stone boxes .

literature

  • Duncan Mackenzie (author), Lycia Mura (translator), Roberto Manca (editor): I dolmen, le tombe di giganti ei nuraghi della Sardegna (= Archèos, volume 3). Condaghes, Cagliari 2012, ISBN 978-88-7356-213-9
  • G. Manca: Misteriosi piccoli dolmen. In: Sardegna Antica. Volume 17, 2000
  • 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. 341.
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

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Coordinates: 39 ° 53 '43.8 "  N , 9 ° 0' 50.9"  E