Sos Furrighesos
Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′ 52.6 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 22.6" E
The rock chamber necropolis of Sos Furrighesos with 20 Domus de Janas is located (difficult to access) in the province of Sassari on Sardinia, which was created by the Copper Age Bonnanaro culture (3000-2300 BC) .
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The remote place is on the border of the districts of Anela and Bono, is about 8 kilometers away (as the crow flies), on the back of the ridge that towers west of these villages up to 1035 m above sea level. The necropolis is located near a remote homestead in a rock face up to 20 m high. Their specialty are the architectural fronts ( reliefs ) and rock carvings in seven of the plants. Six more show traces of a red painting.
Most of the facilities have a T-shaped floor plan with a short anteroom, a transverse main chamber (up to 4 × 1.5 m in size) and side chambers with low platforms, which were probably used to lay out the skeletons. Attachments 2, 6, 8, 9 and 11 are particularly impressive.
The decorations consist of red painting, pilaster strips , small bowls (cupitles), skirting boards, false doors and stylized, sweeping “bull horns” . Grave 9, which is characterized by a portal stele, as it is typical for the older type of giant graves, is popularly called the royal grave ("Sa tumba de su Re"). The phallic relief is 4.4 m high, vigorously carved out and was subsequently carved out of the wall in front of the much older grave. The stumps of three small, broken off baitylos are still stuck in the holes on the upper edge . A similar arrangement can be found in one of the facilities in Sa Figu near Ittiri , where the holes of the three baityloi were carved in a separate boulder that lies above the rock chamber and has a rounded shape comparable to the portal stele.
Probing in 1973 revealed ceramic remains that indicate a use by the prehistoric cultures of Sardinia from the Ozieri culture to the cultures of Abealzu-Filigosa to the Bonnanaro culture .
See also
literature
- L. Rampazzi et al .: Characterization of wall paintings in the Sos Furrighesos necropolis (Anela, Italy) . In: Journal of Cultural Heritage 3, 2002, ISSN 1296-2074 , pp. 237-240.
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
- R. Whitehouse: The Rock-Cut Tombs of the Central Mediterranean . In: Antiquity 46, 1972, ISSN 0003-598X , pp. 275-281.