Su Nuraxi: the central tower
Tower A has an external base diameter of 10 metres and a residual height of 14 metres (estimated original height of over 18 metres); when it was complete it provided a wide view over the valley of Pardu’e S’Eda (fig. 1).
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It is entered through an architraved trapezoid-shape door (height 2.07 metres) facing South that leads through to the ground floor chamber through a small foyer, with a niche on the right (fig. 1).
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The latter is round (diameter 4.80 m; height 7.76 metres) and two large niches on both sides (fig. 3).
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On the wall of the chamber, at 4.22 metres from the floor, there is the chamber staircase, that was originally reached by a mobile wooden or rope ladder that leads to the upper floor via 10 steps (diameter 2.40 metres; height 5.90 metres). On the wall of this room, at 1.75 metres from the floor, there is a 13-step staircase that gives access to the last room (diameter 1.20 metres), of which only the base blocks remain, with a landing supported by stone corbels.
Bibliografia
- LILLIU G., Il nuraghe di Barumini e la stratigrafia nuragica, in Studi Sardi, XII-XIII (1952-1954), Sassari 1955.
- LILLIU G., I nuraghi. Torri preistoriche della Sardegna, Verona 1962.
LILLIU G., ZUCCA R., Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardegna archeologica, Guide e Itinerari, Sassari 1988. - MURRU G., Barumini. Su Nuraxi e il villaggio nuragico, Fondazione Barumini Sistema Cultura, 2007.
- SANTONI V., Il nuraghe Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Guide e Studi, Quartu Sant’Elena 2001.