Santa Sarbana at Silanus
Santa Sarbana near Silanus (also called Santa Sabina) in the province of Nuoro in Sardinia is the name of a nuraghe that stands next to the Byzantine church of the same name south of Silanus .
Nuraghe
The nuraghe has a base diameter of 12.6 m and has been preserved up to a height of 8.6 m. With the completely preserved 8.4 m high eccentric tholos , the 4.15 m round chamber with three side niches, the clockwise staircase and the guard cell in the corridor, it is ideal for the classic nuraghe. In the corridor open to the south there is a rectangular niche on the right and the largely preserved staircase on the left, which led to the upper, now destroyed area. The stairwell is illuminated through a gap in the masonry.
The monument was built between the 14th and the second half of the 10th century BC. During the Late or Early Bronze Age . The nuraghe, together with a village, of which traces can only be found with difficulty, two giant tombs and a holy well, was the center of a larger complex.
church
The 11th century church of Santa Sarbana, next to the nuraghe of the same name, is unique in Sardinia. Even on the continent there is hardly anything like it. It shows a mixture of old building traditions (floor plan, gable fronts, arching archivolts over the entrances, pointed central dome) and Romanesque elements ( barrel vaults in the side aisles, apse windows with stepped cloaks).
The floor plan is reminiscent of early Christian baptisteries with an attached consignatorium and vestiarium. Excavations did not reveal any older building remains. The right side room was reconstructed in 1935.
See also
- List of Byzantine churches in Sardinia
- List of prehistoric and protohistoric archaeological sites in Sardinia
literature
- Giovanni Lilliu: I nuraghi. Torri preistoriche della Sardegna . La Zattera, Cagliari 1962.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 16 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 8 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E