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Finds from the territory of Arzachena: the museum Sanna of Sassari and other local museums

The stone necklace beads from the circular tombs of Li Muri and La Macciunitta are displayed in the Prehistoric Hall (fig. 1) of the Museum G. Sanna of Sassari, which houses the vast majority of the finds from the territory of Arzachena originating for example from the tomb of the giants of Coddu Vecchiu and Li Lolghi, from the temple of Malchittu and the fortified area of Punta Candela.

Most of the other artefacts found at the site of Li Muri are still preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari (fig. 2).

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Fig. 1 - Prehistoric Hall in the Museo Sanna in Sassari (from http://www.museosannasassari.beniculturali.it/getImage.php?id=318&w=333&h=250).
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Fig. 2 - Prehistoric Hall in the Archaeological Museum of Cagliari (from http://museoarcheocagliari.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/coppanuovomuseobollino.jpg)

An important local museum reality is the Ethnographic and mineralogical-palaeontological Museum, inaugurated in 1998 in the centre of Arzachena as a local documentation Centre of science, earth and man.

It houses an extensive collection of minerals and fossils, in all about 15,000 items relating to the Casciu collection, most of which concern Sardinian deposits dating back to the Cenozoic, Mesozoic and Palaeozoic periods (fig. 3).

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Fig. 3 - Ethnographic, and mineralogical-palaeontological Museum (from http://www.comunearzachena.gov.it/images/stories/immagini/museo2.jpg).

The exhibition is divided into two sections where the main mineralisation of Sulcis - Iglesiente, Medio Campidano and Cagliari are documented.



Bibliografia

  • LO SCHIAVO F., Il Museo Archeologico di Sassari G.A. Sanna, Guide e itinerari, 16, Sassari 1991.
  • SANTONI V., Il museo archeologico di Cagliari, Sassari 1989.

 

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