The casa di tufo
The ‘Casa di tufo’, where excavations began in 2014, is in insula ‘C’, not far from the ‘Casa del lucernario di talco’. The building is starting to be one of the most interesting discoveries in the Monte Sirai settlement.
Figs. 1-2 - The settlement of Monte Sirai: highlighted the “Casa di tufo” BARTOLONI 2004, fig. 11; drawn up by GUIRGUIS 2013, fig. 11).
This is a building with five rooms, with squared tufa rocks taken from the rocky banks available on the Sirai plain. Like other buildings in the area, the digs have shown a chronology between the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Fig. 3 - The “Casa di tufo”, 2015 dig (photo by courtesy of Michele Guirguis).
In the investigation carried out in the summer of 2015, a small channel was discovered in the two southern rooms, used for the outflow of liquids to a collection basin which was covered by a large slab with holes in it.
Figs. 4-5 - The “Casa di tufo”, 2015 dig (photo by courtesy of Michele Guirguis).
Bibliografia
- P. BARTOLONI, Monte Sirai, Sassari.
- M. GUIRGUIS, Monte Sirai 1963-2013, mezzo secolo di indagini archeologiche, Sassari.
- M. GUIRGUIS, Monte Sirai 2014. Le nuove indagini nell’abitato e nella necropoli, in Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Cagliari e Oristano, 25, 2014, p. 441.
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