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Excavation

  • Capo S. Elia
  • Cagliari
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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • Province of Cagliari
  • Cagliari

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The second excavation campaign began in 2009 and concluded in 2010, continuing the investigations started in 2008 in the area where walls perhaps belonging to a medieval monastic complex were present.
    The excavation revealed a vast area (30 × 6 m) paved with mortar occupying the zone north-east of the walls. Although some patches were missing, the floor was well-preserved. It appeared to be stratigraphically connected to a stretch of wall, of which three large blocks remained, that continued on from the long channel that drained water into the so-called ‘Roman cistern’, already identified in Spano’s time. The floor also appeared to be divided into at least three rooms, of which traces of the walls were visible. The floor had also been cut in several places by holes of various shapes and sizes, whose use is at present unknown.

    Another floor level, at about 20 cm lower than the first, was visible in the section created by the old excavations in the area immediately south of the walls of the so-called ‘chapel’. Therefore, it appears that there were two occupation phases, but this will need to be confirmed by further excavation.

    Lastly, south of the walls there were several large blocks just visible above the ground that appeared to be in situ and perhaps belonging to the Punic temple.

  • Roberto Sirigu 
  • Anna Luisa Sanna 

Director

  • Alfonso Stiglitz - Museo di San Vero Milis
  • Simonetta Angiolillo - Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storico Artistiche (ora Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio)

Team

  • Anna Luisa Sanna
  • Marco Giuman - Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storico Artistiche (ora Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio)
  • Maria Adele Ibba - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
  • Roberto Sirigu

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storico Artistiche (ora Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio)

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cagliari

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