The faithful placed votive offerings, made of metal, especially bronze figures and perishables such as raw and cooked food, in the Nuragic sanctuaries dedicated to the worship of water, wells and holy springs.

The sacred spring of Cantaru Addes is in the territory of Bonorva, about 400 metres east of the small village of Rebeccu. The water comes from a perennial Karst spring found in the grotto of the same name. It was frequented from the Nuragic Age to the Late Imperial Roman Age, as the finding of coins from the 4th century A.D. shows.

A bronze statue 12.3cm high of a woman comes from this site. The small statue, kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, is dated to the 10th-7th century B.C. (figs. 1-2).

The female figure is shown with both arms stretched out and with a long face with thin nose and slightly open mouth. She is dressed in a long fringed tunic and over it, a wide cape that is decorated on the back by four areas filled with vertical marks. A veil covers her head, but leaves the forehead uncovered (figs. 3-4).

Fig. 1 - The statue of the offering woman found in Cantaru Addes (from LILLIU 196, sheet 73).

Fig. 2 - The statue seen from the side (by LILLIU 1966, sheet 73).

Fig. 3 - The statue of the offering woman found in Cantaru Addes (from ALBA 201, p. 382)

Fig. 4 - The back of the statue (by ALBA 2014, page 382)