Nuragus

Nuragus

Nuragus

Comune in Sardinia, Italy

For the Italian wine grape, see Nuragus (grape).

Nuragus (Latin: Valentia[2]) is a small town,[3] in administrative terms a comune (municipality), in the Province of South Sardinia in the Italian autonomous region of Sardinia, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of the local capital Cagliari.

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Nuragus borders the following municipalities: Genoni, Gesturi, Isili, Laconi, Nurallao.

Archaeology

Copper trade originating in the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age kingdom of Alashiya (probably Cyprus) reached as far west as Sardinia, where five typical oxhide ingots were first turned up by a plough in 1857, at the foot of a demolished nuraghe called Serra Ilixi by locals.[4] The find was published by Luigi Pigorini in 1904.[4] Ingots from Serra Ilixi are on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Cagliari.[3]

Between Nuragus and Nurallao there is the Giants' tomb of Aiodda, also from the Nuragic era.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
  2. [2]
    Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 48.
  3. [3]
    Official tourism website of Sardinia. Town Nuragus, (c) Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Assessorato del Turismo, Artigianato e Commercio. Accessed July 2018.
  4. [4]
    Lo Schiavo, Fulvia (2017). Jean MacIntosh Turfa (ed.). The Western Mediterranean before the Etruscans. Routledge Worlds (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9781138060357. Retrieved 18 July 2018. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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