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The domus de janas XIII

Of the domus de janas located on the plain, tomb XIII or tomba del Ciglione, as named by the archaeologist Antonio Taramelli, (fig. 1) is the most interesting.

Its entrance, next to hypogeum XII, has a ruined facade, where only residual traces of the entrance to a large ante-cell with a flat ceiling can be seen (figs. 1, 2).

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Figs. 1, 2 - On the right, the entrance to the domus de janas XI (photo by Unicity S.p.A.).

At the centre of this room, sunk into the floor rock, there is an architectural element of considerable importance: a circular, ritual fireplace with ring-shaped ferrule and a cup in the centre (figs. 3, 4). Taramelli interpreted it as an offer bowl and for funeral libations.

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Fig. 3 - Map of domus de janas XIII (by TARAMELLI 1919, fig. 57, pages 119, 120).
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Fig. 4 - The ante-cell of hypogeum XIII with the ritual fireplace in the centre (photo by Unicity S.p.A.).

There is a door in the ante-cell that leads into the cell, originally small, then expanded at a later date. To the west, a door leads into a square cell, with a small oven cell on the left, and another square cell on the same longitudinal axis.

 

Bibliografia

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  • TARAMELLI A., Fortezze, Recinti, Fonti sacre e Necropoli preromane nell’Agro di Bonorva (Prov. di Sassari), con rilievi e disegni del Prof. Francesco Giarrizzo, in Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei, XXV, 1919, coll. 765-904.
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