Serra Niedda (fountain sanctuary)
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The well sanctuary ( Italian Pozzo sacro ) of Serra Niedda dates from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Sardinia . It is located near Sorso in the province of Sassari and was excavated by Daniela Rovina between 1985 and 1988.
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description
The complex includes a fountain sanctuary, around which several huts built at different times are arranged. The small, circular, now open (destroyed) tholos-like fountain tract with a diameter of around 2.0 m and a remaining height of 4.4 m does not have the obligatory trapezoidal porch of Santa Cristina and similar structures, but is made up of eleven stairs via an arched staircase somewhat irregular, semicircular limestone steps. The last three lower steps, like the lower well itself, are carved out of the rock.
About seven meters to the north is the remains of a building, of which only the base has been preserved. The round chamber, the function of which is unclear, is six meters in diameter. Between the monuments is a 0.55 m high limestone monolith with a diameter of 0.80 m, which is interpreted as an altar . A depression that was perhaps only carved into the rock in the Middle Ages and other building remains are outside the excavation area.
- Pozzo sacro di Serra Niedda
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Finds
The archaeological material found mainly around the monolith consists of votive bronzes (including a nuragic model with four towers and a man with a spear who leads an animal - possibly a ram - on a leash), bones from sacrificial animals and materials from Roman times that prove a long use of the system. You are now in the Museo Nazionale GA Sanna in Sassari .
See also
literature
- Daniela Rovina: Sorso (SS): Tempio a pozzo in località Santuario Serra Niedda , in: Nuovo bullettino archeologico sardo 2, 1985, p. 276 ff.
- Daniela Rovina: Il santuario nuragico di Serra Niedda (Sorso) , in: Nuovo bullettino archeologico sardo 3, 1986, pp. 37-47.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 48 ′ 44 ″ N , 8 ° 35 ′ 2 ″ E