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Excavation

  • San Pietro
  • Villamar
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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • South Sardinia
  • Villamar

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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)

  • Four tombs were investigated in 2017 that had been partially excavated in the 1990s. The contexts, of various type, date to between the late 4th and the 3rd century B.C.
    Tomb 12 is an underground structure with a vertical “pozzo” shaft, orientated more or less north-south, providing access to a small funerary chamber. The chamber contained two levels of fill, which also contained materials that probabaly derived from the dismantling of other funerary contexts. The remains of a group of vases, probabaly from the original burial in the chamber, had been placed at the bottom of the shaft. The chamber was closed with imbrices, found in fragments and partially collapsed. The chamber contained the last intact burial of an individual in a supine position with a rich tomb group, both vases and personal items (a ring, an amulet and several bronze coins) and two underlying burials that had been moved. Burial 3 was partially heaped at the centre of the chamber when the remains were only partially decomposed. On the chamber floor, below the three adults, lay the unarticulated remains of two babies who died between the ages of 1 – 3 months.

    Tomb 4 is an “a pozzo” burial with a niche; the “pozzo” is not deep and on the west side presented an unusual arrangement of stones closed by a vertically-placed flat stone slab. Even more unusual was the position of the two bodies: the individuals, in supine position were place one on top of the other, one with the feet on top of the head of the other and viceversa. Each had a tomb group comprising two vases, and in one case a coin.

    Tomb 34 is an enchytrismos burial situated near tomb 4, which suggests the deceased may have been related. The amphora, broken at the bottom for the insertion of the small body, was carefully hidden in a rocky crevice with small stones placed above it and to the sides. Together with the few osteological remains the burial contained numerous amulets, a coin and a cypraea.
    Tomb 35 was situated in sector A1 of the archaeological area, nearby tomb A9, investigated in 2013, which partially covered it. On the surface the tomb appeared as a tumulus of stones.

    Beneath these there was a dump of numerous osteological remains and pottery fragments that certainly came from other funerary contexts. These finds included some of the earliest materials from the necropolis. The stone slab covering underneath the dump sealed burial 1, intact, with its grave goods. The excavation halted with the removal of these remains, as at the end of the season, other unarticulated bones, especially lower limbs, from a primary burial appeared.

  • Elisa Pompianu - Università degli Studi di Sassari  

Director

  • Elisa Pompianu - Università degli Studi di Sassari

Team

  • Clizia Murgia – Università Autonoma de Barcelona
  • Gabriele Carenti – independent researcher

Research Body

  • Università di Sassari, Dipartimento di Storia, Scienze dell’Uomo e della Formazione

Funding Body

  • Comune di Villamar

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