Benetutti, Domus di Molimentos

The burial is located on the slope of a small plateau dotted with granite spikes.
The domus consists of three sub-rectangular rooms on which five other smaller elliptical or semicircular cells open up.
The tomb is accessed through a rectangular vestibule, whose ceiling reproduces a double-sloped roof with a central beam (cm 20 x 5 prof.) from which the side beams branch off (eight on each side) alternating with wide flat bands (cm 20-30).
On the side walls of the cell, the access doors to two other rooms are open (the one with a d. no longer detectable, the one with a semicircular plan and vaulted into an oven). Through a door made in the wall opposite the wall at the entrance to the hypogeum, the vestibule enters the cell, filled with earth and stones.
On the back wall of the chamber there is another door that leads into the largest of the rooms of the tomb.
The entrance has a framed recess and, above, two straight grooves, parallel to each other, of different lengths (length 75 cm and 45 cm).
The cell has a rectangular plan (4.00 x 2.40 x 1.20 m) and has two columns.
From the cell, through small open doors on the side walls and on the back walls, you enter the three subsidiary cells.
The door that leads into the cell has, above the recess, a false lintel in flat relief (length 60 cm; width 15 cm).

History of studies
The domus was the subject of clandestine excavations.

Bibliography
D. Mackenzie, “The dolmens, tombs of the giants and nuraghi of Sardinia”, in Papers of the British School at Rome, V, 2, 1910, pp. 89-137, tavv. I-XII; V, 1911, pp. 127-170;
A. Taramelli, “Sheet 19: Ozieri”, in Archaeological Edition of the Map of Italy at 100,000, Florence, Military Geographic Institute, 1931, p.41;
M.L. Ferrarese Ceruti, “Domus de janas in Molimentos (Benetutti-Sassari)”, in Bullettino di Palethnology Italiana, n.s., XVIII, 76, 1967, pp. 67-135, figg. 1-42; G. Lilliu, The Sardinian civilization from the Paleolithic era alla età dei nuraghi, Turin, Nuova ERI, 1988, pp.197, 297; G. Tanda, “Value and consistency of heritage archaeological of the Gocean”, in Sesuja, IV, 7, 1988, p. 19.

How to get there
The monument is located near the Benetutti cemetery, in the south of the town, on privately owned land.