The ‘Casa Amadasi’ (the dig on this monument was begun in 1967 by the archaeologist and epigraphist Maria Giulia Amadasi) is the first significant building of insula C (figs. 1-2), south of the temple of Astarte and placed opposite the ‘Casa Fantar’, the first building in insula B (fig. 3).

Figs. 1, 2 - The settlement of Monte Sirai: highlighted the “casa Amadasi". BARTOLONI 2004, fig. 11; drawn up by GUIRGUIS 2013, fig. 11).

This is a house with at least eleven rooms, built in the Punic age (perhaps even older) and abandoned in the Republican age; the final phase of its life was between the 2nd and early decades of the 1st century B.C., as found by the stratigraphic dig carried out in 2012 in room 20 in the south-west part of the house.

Figs. 3, 4 - The “casa Amadasi”. Higher up, the temple of Astarte; to the left, the ‘Casa Fantar’ (photo Unicity S.p.A.); map (MONTE SIRAI - IV, fig. 3).

There is a wooden reconstruction of a press (fig. 5) is currently found in room no. 12 of the map (fig. 4).

Fig. 5 - The “casa Amadasi”. Entrance to room 12 (photo Unicity S.p.A.).