Well Comerma de Sa Garita
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Location in Menorca |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 53 '50.1 " N , 4 ° 6' 43" E | ||
| place | Alaior , Menorca , Balearic Islands , Spain | ||
| Emergence | second half of the 1st millennium BC Chr. | ||
Na Comerma de Sa Garita is a megalithic complex in the municipality of Alaior on the Spanish Balearic island of Menorca . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Dolmens Ses Roques Llises and in the wider area of the Talayotic settlement of Torre d'en Galmés .
description
Na Comerma de sa Garita is a unique structure in Menorcan prehistory. It consists of two clearly differentiated parts - a building with an irregular apse shape in the north and an adjacent semicircular courtyard to the south. The building is surrounded by a double-walled wall that has been preserved up to a height of 2 m. Inside the building there are ten polylithic columns, which consist of up to seven coarse stone blocks piled up. Originally there were probably 15 columns, which were arranged in three rows running from east to west. Six heavy stones connect some pillars as roof panels. In the western part of the building there is an approx. 1.80 m high taula near the outer wall .
To the south of the building is an approximately 270 m² large courtyard, which is surrounded by a Cyclops wall. The original entrance is near its southernmost point. It is partially blocked by its fallen lintel.
One can only speculate about the function of the facility, especially because no excavation has yet taken place. The existence of a taula dates the building to the post-Talayotic period between 550 and 123 BC. This means that it can no longer be used as a residential building, because the residential buildings of this time, the Cercles, were all built the same, but do not resemble Na Comerma de Sa Garita. The spacious design suggests a public building, the taula a religious function.
Monument protection
Na Comerma de Sa Garita was declared a Historic Monument in 1966. The current registration number as a cultural asset ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) is RI-55-0000669.
Nomination for World Heritage List
Na Comerma de Sa Garita is one of the 32 archaeological sites that Spain officially proposed on January 14, 2016 as " Talayotic Culture of Menorca " for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List . The World Heritage Committee postponed the application at its 41st meeting in July 2017 and requested improvements.
Picture gallery
Polylithic column
The taula
Columns with capstones
Wall
View through the collapsed entrance
Layout
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Na Comerma de Sa Garita monument on the Menorca Talayótica website, accessed on April 21, 2017
- ↑ Vicente Ibañez Ort : Reflexiones sobre el diseño de las "taulas" de Menorca y su relación con el mundo pitagórico (PDF; 534 kB). In: Suma 35, November 2000, pp. 75–86 (Spanish)
- ^ A b Antoni Nicolau Martí, Elena Sintes Olives, Ricard Pla Boada, Albert Àlvarez Marsal: Talayotic Minorca . The prehistory of the island. Triangle Books, Sant Lluís 2015, ISBN 978-84-8478-640-5 , pp. 222-225 (English).
- ↑ Talayotic Culture of Minorca , on the Spanish tentative list at UNESCO (English), accessed on October 28, 2017.
- ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): List of nominations received by February 1, 2016 and for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session (2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 427 kB ]).
- ↑ World Heritage Committee (Ed.): Decisions adopted during the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee (Krakow, 2017) . (English, unesco.org [PDF; 4.5 MB ]).