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Tower B

Corner tower B is on the southern side of the bastion of Su Nuraxi (15th-13th century B.C.), in a frontal position to close and protect both the keep and the courtyard (fig. 1).

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Fig. 1 - Map of Su Nuraxi, nuraghe and village (from Lilliu 1962, Table LVI.1, page 328).

The tower has only a single cell, that was originally made of two chambers, one on top of the other. Its external diameter is 8 metres, an internal base diameter of 4.70 metres and a residual height of 8.40 metres. The ground floor chamber is accessed through a foyer that is 3.10/3.70 metres long and 1.37/1.81 metres wide (fig. 2).

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Fig. 2 - Entrance door to tower B (from Lilliu 1962, Table LXIII.3, page 335).

The lower chamber wall had a double row of embrasures that also act to provide light and air; the upper row originally had a wooden walkway that could be accessed from a mobile staircase. When the bastion wall was redone, between the 12th and the 10th centuries B.C., the embrasures were closed up (fig. 3).

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Fig. 3 - Embrasures from the upper row in the chamber wall of tower B (From Lilliu, 1962, Table LXIV.2, p. 336).

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, pp. 181-191.
    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.
  • USAI L., Il nuraghe Su Nuraxi, Barumini, in CAMPUS F., LEONELLI V. (a cura di), Simbolo di un simbolo: i modelli di nuraghe, Monteriggioni 2013, pp. 324-329.

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