Nuraghe San Pietro
The well-preserved lower part of the excavated Nuraghe San Pietro stands northwest of Torpè in the floodplain of the Rio Posada, northeast of Nuoro in the province of Nuoro in Sardinia . The nuraghe consists of the approximately 3.5 m high lower part of the central main tower ( Italian mastio ) made of roughly hewn local red trachyte blocks and the remains of four side holoi . 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 central tower has an inner diameter of 4.1 m. The chamber has three side niches arranged in a cross shape and ending in pointed arches. The three niches have the same size with a width of 0.8 m, a depth of 1.5 m and a height of 2.1 m. The chamber has the entrance in the south-southeast, which is covered by a fall at a height of 1.75 m . On the right side is the large 1.2 m wide and 2.2 m deep guard cell . The remainder of the 1.2 m wide staircase that led upstairs leads to the left.
To the south of the central tower is a walled courtyard which, through the use of slate and trachyte, indicates different phases of construction. The almost rectangular courtyard is about 3.3 m wide and 5.0 m long. In the middle is the fountain, which has a mouth opening 60 cm in diameter. It widens into a funnel that reaches a depth of 5.8 m. The entrances to the four outer towers are located in the east and west of the courtyard. The courtyard is also the only access to the central tower. A 0.8 m wide, 2.8 m long corridor leads to the courtyard on the southwest side. It ends at a height of about 1.0 m with an architrave that forces the visitor to bend down. In the inner courtyard, next to the mouth of the entrance, there is a conical slot (now collapsed) with an opening of about 0.25 m.
- Nuraghe San Pietro
Central chamber with niche
Courtyard with a fountain
Fountain
Slot opening
South-west tower with niche
To the west is the southwest tower, made of small and medium-sized slate blocks. It represents the base of a section of wall that may have been part of an earlier building over which the tower was later built. A corridor about 1.6 m long, 1.5 m high and 0.7 m wide, crowned by a lintel on the entrance side, leads from the courtyard into the tower, the floor of which is about 0.5 m lower than the entrance. The remaining height of the wall of this tower is 2.4 m at its highest point.
In the southeast of the courtyard, an approximately 2.0 m long and 0.7 m wide corridor leads to another tower made of small to medium-sized slate chunks. In this tower with an inner diameter of about 3.0 m there are two niches that are higher than the floor. The niche in the east is 0.8 m wide, but only 0.5 m deep. This appears to be the result of closing an old wall opening to the outside, as indicated by the discontinuity in the masonry. The niche in the north is 0.6 m wide and 1.5 m deep, similar to that in the other towers.
In the northeast of the central tower is the third tower, which has an inner diameter of 3.4 m and an entrance to the east. A fireplace was found in the middle of the chamber. On part of its perimeter, the base of the tower surrounds the 0.3 m high wall of a bank altar . In this tower, too, there seems to have been an old wall opening closed to the outside, while the wall enlarges to the south to a 6.8 m long corridor without an exit opening, which was probably used as a warehouse.
The last of the four towers is in the northwest and has an elevated access to the east. This 0.7 m wide access is covered by a lintel that limits the opening to a height of 1.15 m. With a remaining height of 2.9 m, this tower is the highest of the four outer towers. Its chamber is 3.4 m in diameter, but no niches.
The nuraghe was likely built in stages. One of the most important finds is a clay figure from the late Bronze Age .
See also
literature
- Alberto Pala: Torpè, I monumenti archeologici Olbia, Tipolitografia Ovidio Soggiu, 2012.
- Maria Ausilia Fadda: Torpè (Nuoro) - Nuraghe San Pietro. In: Nuovo Bollettino Archeologico Sardo, 1984, p. 377.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wells have been found in some nuraghi. The fountain in the Is Paras Nuraghe is even in the central chamber
- ↑ This architectural detail is present in some side towers of the nuraghi and in nuragic round huts, such as at Santa Cristina in Paulilatino , in the so-called "capanna dei capi" (Eng. Hut of the guides)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 38 ′ 16.4 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 5.2" E