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Casa Fantar

The ‘casa Fantar’ takes its name from the archaeologists who discovered it in 1966;  it is in the NW corner of the insula B (figs. 1-2).

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

 

This is a house with an inner courtyard and five rooms, one smaller one that was a storeroom or a workshop-shop (figs. 3-4). There are still remains of a second floor. A channel dug into the stone was an outflow for water from the inside of the house to the road. Large square blocks are inserted into the supporting walls.

The house was built by the first half of the 3rd century B.C. It is an interesting example of a house with “an inner courtyard”, a model already found in the late Nuragic age, that will become traditional in domestic architecture in Sardinia.

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Figs. 3-4 - The ‘casa Fantar’ (photo Unicity S.p.A.; GUIRGUIS 2013, fig. 19).

 

Bibliografia

  • A. SANNA (a cura di), L'Atlante dei tipi edilizi e delle architetture rurali in ambito regionale, http://www.sardegna.beniculturali.it/psg/rurale/cap1_2.html, in Paesaggio Rurale in Sardegna: elementi per un Atlante Regionale, Regione Autonoma della Sardegna.
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  • M. H. FANTAR, D. FANTAR, La zone B, in MONTE SIRAI – IV, Roma 1967, pp. 27-54.
  • M. GUIRGUIS, Monte Sirai 1963-2013, mezzo secolo di indagini archeologiche, Sassari, pp. 26-27.
  • M. LE LANNOU, Pâtres et paysans de la Sardaigne, Tours.
  • M. G. AMADASI, F. BARRECA et alii (a cura di), Monte Sirai - IV. Rapporto preliminare della Missione archeologica dell’Università di Roma e della Soprintendenza alle Antichità di Cagliari (Studi Semitici, 25), Roma 1967.

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