Tamuli

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Perdas marmuradas - stones with breasts

The nuraghe and the three giant tombs of Tamuli are located southwest of Macomer on the plateau of Pranu 'e Murtas in the province of Nuoro in Sardinia . The buildings called "Tumbas de los zigantes" and ( Italian Tombe dei Giganti ) in Sardu are the largest prenuraghic cult structures in Sardinia and are among the latest megalithic structures in Europe . The 321 known giant tombs are monuments of the Bronze Age Bonnanaro culture (2,200–1,600 BC), which is a precursor to the Nuragic culture .

Type sequence

Structurally, giant tombs appear in two variants. The systems with portal steles and exedra are of the older type. In later systems, the exedra consists of a square facade, significantly raised in the middle, made of processed and layered stone blocks ( Italian tipo dolmenico - dolmen type) instead of monolithic steles . In the giant tombs of Tamuli only one of the exedra has been preserved to some extent. They are of the younger type (with a square facade) made of basalt .

description

The giant grave with the six baityloi

Few meters from a giant grave are the 1.5-meter-high "perdas marmuradas" - six nuragical Baityloi ( Italian betili ) three male and three female menhirs , which in the Middle Ages as "sa petra uue sunt sos thithiclos" (the stone with the Breasts) and refer to the Sardinian stone cult.

See also

literature

  • Rainer Pauli: Sardinia. History culture landscape. Voyages of discovery on one of the most beautiful islands in the Mediterranean . 7th edition. DuMont, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-7701-1368-3 , ( DuMont documents. DuMont art travel guide ).

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Coordinates: 40 ° 15 ′ 39 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 4"  E