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period located in the municipality of

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, in the

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, Italy. Situated in an alluvial plain near the town, it is a complex

nuraghe The nuraghe (, ; plural: Logudorese Sardinian , Campidanese Sardinian , Italian ), or also nurhag in English, is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 B.C. To ...

, protected by seven visible towers, linked together by an antemural, and by three other probable towers that would hide below the old former provincial road 10. Around it there was a village of huts. From the area of the nuraghe comes the famous bronze candelabra of

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type currently exposed to the National Archaeological Museum of

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

Bibliography

*G.Lilliu, "D'un candelabro paleosardo del museo di Cagliari", in Studi Sardi, VIII, 1948, pp. 5-42; *G. Tore, "Intorno ad un 'torciere' bronzeo di tipo cipriota da San Vero Milis (S'Uraki) Oristano", in Società e cultura in Sardegna nei periodi orientalizzante ed arcaico (fine 8° sec. a. C.-480 a.C.): rapporti tra Sardegna, fenici, etruschi e greci, Cagliari, 1986; *S. Moscati, "Testimonianze fenicio-puniche ad Oristano", in Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 31, 1, Roma, 1988. Buildings and structures in Sardinia Archaeological sites in Sardinia Former populated places in Italy Nuraghe {{Sardinia-geo-stub