The “tomba a camera” (VIII)
The Tomba a Camera is about 10 metres above the level of the ground. It originally had a large entrance with a staircase, that has now collapsed.
A rectangular atrium leads into a bigger room, also rectangular, with a sloping roof supported by pillars made in the rock. On the long side of the cell and the short left side, auxiliary cells can be seen (fig. 1).
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The characteristic of this tomb are the decorations engraved in the architrave ceiling of the cell, that represents the wooden sloping roof with a central beam and sixteen lateral beams (eight per side) of a rectangular pre-Nuragic home (figs. 2, 3).
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The roof is supported by two pillars, one of which (the left) stands on a funeral bench saved on the left side, producing two false niches (figs. 4, 5).
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Another element in this domus are the three hollows dug into the ante-cell floor i.e. Circular cavities contained in the rocky floor, used for collecting offers in honour of the deceased, and a dug-out tomb from the High Middle Ages.
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