Sese (Pantelleria)
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A Sese (plur. Sesi) is a tower-like structure made of dry brickwork on the Italian island of Pantelleria , south of Sicily . The numerous Sesi on Pantelleria show that the island was settled early. The German scholar Gerhard Rohlfs researched cantilever vault buildings made of dry stone in Europe for more than 30 years . In 1957 he published the Pantelleria result in the book: Primitive Kuppelbauten in Europa .
Unlike the rectangular houses or the Dammuso , which can also be found on the island, Sesi are circular or elliptical. The smaller ones are frustoconical, their round chambers have a cantilever vault and are entered through a low entrance. It is believed that the Sesi were cult and burial places of the Sesiots, a people who lived around the 5th millennium BC. BC brought the Neolithic culture to the island. Sesi are similar to the giren of Malta, as well as nuraghi , talayot, and torren found on other western Mediterranean islands .
The largest is the "Sese Grande" or "Sese del Re", it is dated around 1800 BC. Dated. It is located on an area with around 70 other, smaller but similar systems. The Sese Grande is elliptical and more than 20 m in diameter. It rises in steps and has a dome in the middle. It contains 12 chambers, almost all of which have a separate seven-meter-long entrance that is only accessible from the outside. The Sesi are classified as Neolithic based on the remains found in them. Some ceramics, dated to around 1400-1300 BC. Are exhibited on site. A skeleton was found in one of the Sesi.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Rohlfs: Primitive domed buildings in Europe (= Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Abhandlungen. NF 43, ISSN 0005-710X). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1957.