A green glazed type ceramic bottle, found in the giants’ tomb of Thomes (figs. 1, 2). It is a vessel specifically used to hold liquids.

Fig. 1 - Giants’ tomb of Thomes, Dorgali (photo by Unicity S.p.A.).

Fig. 2 - Rendering of the exedra space of the giants’ tomb of Thomes, Dorgali (photo by Unicity S.p.A.).

About 14 cm high, it belongs to a pottery class in use during the Late Ancient and High-Medieval Ages in Italy. It has a flat bottom, the body has a sub-cylindrical profile, a cylindrical neck, a rim slightly folded outwards. The mixture is purified and a red-brown colour (figs. 3, 4).

Fig. 3 - Medieval bottle, giants’ tomb of Thomes-Dorgali (photo by Unicity S.p.A.).

Fig. 4 - Graphic reconstruction of the artefact (from CAPRARA 1980, table XXXII.18).

The artefact documents inhabitation of the giants’ tomb of Thomes during the Middle Ages, between the seventh-eighth and the fourteenth century A.D., almost certainly related to the medieval villages of Nurule and Isarle, founded near the prehistoric funerary monument.