Nuraghe Lugherras
The Nuraghe Lugherras is one of several complex Nuraghe ( Nuraghe Losa ) west of Paulilatino in the province of Oristano on the Italian island of Sardinia .
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 The nuraghe, expanded in three phases, originally made of large, misshapen blocks and now severely disturbed, is located on a high hill and dates from the Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC).
The central mastio (A) with two superimposed chambers and two (B and D) of its once four surrounding tholoi (BE) as well as the remains of the outer bastion, including tholos (F), one of the four outer tholoi (FI) with are preserved round chambers. The masonry also encloses a small courtyard with five outlets. The entrance to the Mastio and three corridors to the Tholoi BD as well as the corridor to the outside area lead off from it. Such a complex yard is rare. In the courtyard there is a ten meter deep well filled with boulders with a diameter of about half a meter.
Tower A (the Mastio)
The access to the almost round chamber of the mastio has a guard cell on the right, opposite which the intramural staircase leads to the upper floor of the tower, which has been preserved up to a height of 6 to 7 meters. The central chamber has two side niches (no head niche), of which the larger left one also has a smaller extension.
Tholos D
The oval chamber in Tholos D also has a staircase, access to the courtyard and direct access from the corridor that leads to the outside area. Neither of these is found in other nuraghi.
Tholoi B, C and E
From the courtyard towards corridors in the direction of the round tholoi B and C, while the former opening of the tholos E can no longer be determined. The access to the removed tholos C is buried, while the chamber of the mostly preserved tholos B is accessible. It has, which is absolutely unusual for Nebentholoi, one (of probably once two) side niches and thus represents a scaled-down image of the chamber in the mastio. This may also apply to the chambers of the destroyed tholoi E and C.
The nuraghe continued to be used as a place of worship after the end of the nuragic culture . The Punic variant of the fertility cult spread (also documented in the Nuraghe Genna Maria).
In the Roman Empire (238 BC - 456 AD) it was a temple of Demeter and Kore.
Nearby is a giant grave with a rare square stele.
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Excavations
Excavations have been taking place since 1910 ( Antonio Taramelli ), during which a large amount of artifacts, terracottas and thousands of votive lamps were discovered, from which the name (from the Sardinian iugherras = light ) is derived. Female figures, Punic and Roman coins and incense were also found.
literature
- Giovanni Lilliu : I nuraghi. Torri preistoriche della Sardegna . La Zattera, Cagliari 1962.
- Laura Lai, Matteo Sordini: 3D documentation of a megalithic building in Sardinia . In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies 2013 (CHNT 18, 2013), Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie, Vienna, 2014, ISBN 978-3-200-03676-5 .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 5 '52.5 " N , 8 ° 42' 49.9" E