Nuraghe Oes
The Nuraghe Oes is located in the Valle dei Nuraghi near Giave or Torralba in the province of Sassari in Sardinia . It is a dome or tholos nuraghe of the Bronze Age nuragic culture .
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The nuraghe , which has not yet been excavated, impresses with the regularity of the rows of stones on the central tower, which is also found in a similarly exact form in the Losa nuraghe . The remains of the two secondary tholoi are connected to the main tower by means of compact masonry. Their shapes are original in that the rare, niche-free tholoi of the secondary towers (as in Sa Domu 'e s'Orku (Sarroch) ) were not executed concentrically to the outer wall. The triangular bastion encloses an almost rectangular courtyard. Which is accessible through two entrances with side niches.
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 .
When building the nuraghi, large blocks of stone were piled up without mortar to form a tower, which tapers towards the top and ends with a false vault on the inside . The central interior of the Nuraghe Oes, likewise without a niche, shows a special feature that can only be found in two or three other nuraghi. Ledges and the holes used for beams indicate that the floors of the upper (presumably three) floors were not realized with vaults, as usual, but with wooden structures. Only the ceiling of the top floor, which has been removed, finished the building with the usual tholos structure . The spiral, right-hand staircase, which begins in the undivided (niche) entrance and leads inside the wall (preserved in three spirals) to the upper floors, corresponds to the staircases in other nuraghi. As Lilliu notes, the invention of the wooden floors, in contrast to the traditional, more elaborate system, seems modern. Construction time, material and space could be saved, while at the same time less weight was placed on the walls. The latter does not play a role in the Nuraghe Oes, which has unusually thick masonry. It may have been higher than previously thought. The floor concept suggests that the Nuraghe Oes comes from a later period than the Nuraghe Santu Antine, 800 m away . This would also be indicated by the particularly clean processing of the stones, which was probably done with metal tools.
See also
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 .
- Laura Lai, Matteo Sordini, Stefano Campana, Luisanna Usai, Francesca Condò: 4D recording and analysis: The case study of Nuraghe Oes (Giave, Sardinia). In: Digital Applications in Archeology and Cultural Heritage, 2 (4), Elsevier, 2015, pp. 233-239. doi : 10.1016 / j.daach.2015.09.001
Individual evidence
- ↑ “The Tower of Oes”, writes Giovanni Lilliu, “is of particular technical sophistication. The wall surface consists of basalt stones , which are arranged in perfect horizontal layers and staggered according to the sizes, which decrease from bottom to top ... "
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Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ 47.2 " N , 8 ° 46 ′ 28.1" E