Tomb VI in the domus de janas necropolis in Sant’Andrea Priu known as the “Tomba del Capo”, was reused for Christian worship in two different eras, reaching the present day as a church dedicated to Sant'Andrea.

The tomb has eighteen rooms, the three biggest of which stand along a longitudinal axis (fig. 1) and which have undergone several changes during the Paleo-Christian, Byzantine and Medieval eras, acting as narthex, room and presbytery (bimah).

Fig. 1 - “Tomba del Capo”, Byzantine phase (from CAPRARA 1986, page 46).

In the inner cell (room), in the wall that contains the entrance to the innermost chamber (fig. 2), there are still some Christian frescoes, now ruined, that have been dated by experts back to the 4th-6th centuries A.D.: at the top, in a space surrounded by a red strip, there are painted garlands and birds (fig. 3), while to the left there is a female figure (fig. 4) observing the spectator and at the same time turning to the cross painted on the entrance of the same inner chamber.

Fig. 2 - The door that leads from the room to the bimah (photo Unicity S.p.A.).

Fig. 3 - Birds and garlands (photo Unicity S.p.A.).

Fig. 4 - The female figure on the room wall (photo Unicity S.p.A.).