Domus de Janas Sos Furrighesos
The Domus de Janas Sos Furrighesos is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Anela, Sardinia.
It is a necropolis dug into the rock of the ridge of the volcanic plateau of Pianu Oschiri, which overlooks the Tuvu 'e carru stream.
Description
The necropolis consists of 18 domus de janas, dug on three overlapping horizontal levels, for a maximum height of 3 m above ground level.Based on the materials found during the excavations, the burials have been dated to a period between the late Neolithic and the early Bronze Age.
The tombs were accessible thanks to notches carved into the rocks, an accurate system of channels conveyed rainwater and infiltration water downwards and to the sides of the tomb doors, preserving decorations, bodies and funeral furnishings from humidity and decay. The entrances were closed with wooden or stone doors.
Tomb IX, also called sa tumba de su re, consists of a single cell.
The entrance door is highlighted by a stele sculpted in relief and divided by a horizontal strip shaped like a trapezium into two sections: the upper one is a lunette and the lower one is a trapezium. The band that surrounds the stele laterally and above has the same relief. The stele was sculpted in times following the excavation of the hypogeum during the Archaic Nuragic period.
Above this architectural party, on a flat stretch there are three recesses containing three baetyl pillars held in place by rock chips and oblong pebbles arranged in a knife-edge pattern.
The cell has a rectangular plan, the ceiling and walls are decorated with engravings. The latter were made with different techniques: with hammer, linear, with polissoir and with dotted lines, from the Roman era or early medieval era. The hammer carvings date back to different eras from the Abealzu-Filigosa culture to the Bronze Age.