Temple of Bugibba
The Temple of Bugibba is a megalithic temple on the grounds of the Dolmen Resort Hotel on the Dawret il-Gzejjer road in San Pawl il-Baħar on St. Paul's Bay, Malta . It is located near the coast between Buġibba and Qawra Point and was built in the Tarxien phase (3000-2500 BC) of the Maltese prehistory.
The catchment area of the regionally important, formerly five-part temple is likely to have extended over the flat land of Salina Bay to the region around the height of Il-Ghallis, as there are largely terra rossa soils here . Globigerine and coral limestone, which can still be seen as part of the exedra , was available as building material . From the reconstructed Trilithentor , the capstone of which was replaced in modern times, a corridor leads to the central area with the remains of the front apses. Part of the floor of the temple is preserved on the back.
- Temple of Bugibba
The more disturbed Buġibba temple was discovered in the 1920s by Themistocles Żammit (1864-1935) and excavated in 1928 by Zammit and Lewis J. Upton Way. The remains were added to the list of antiquities in 1925. In 1952 the temple was re-measured and in 1954 excavations were made to determine its chronology.
Two ornate stone blocks were found during the excavations. One is a carved square block altar with a spiral relief. The other is a rectangular block with fish carved on two sides. The blocks are now in the National Museum of Archeology in Valletta .
See also
literature
- Joachim von Freeden: Malta and the architecture of its temples. Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-11012-9 .
- Themistocles Żammit : The Tarxien Temples and the Saflieni Hypogeum. 1994.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 57 '16.9 " N , 14 ° 25' 5.1" E