San Teodoro, Museum of Civilizations of the Sea

“The museum is temporarily closed for renovations, a probable reopening date is currently unknown.”

The temporary exhibition presents finds found in the area of the town of San Teodoro, in its waters and in the nearest ones, affected in ancient times by intense commercial traffic movements. There is also a monetary treasure from the Punic era, of unknown origin. The oldest find is a Greco-Italic amphora, to be placed in relation to the Punic city of Olbia, the largest port in northern Sardinia starting from 350 BC. The other amphorae show the evolution of this container up to the classic Italic wine form, testifying to the continuity and intensification of traffic.
In addition to wine, Roman ships carried other goods: among them black-painted ceramics produced in Central Italy and Campania, widespread, due to its low cost, in all the centers of the Mediterranean, especially in the West. In the first century A.D. traffic was mainly directed to Rome and central Tyrrhenian Italy. As in the republican era, cereals leave from Sardinian ports, including Olbia, to supply Rome and the armies, while good quality wine is imported from the Peninsula for the canteens of Italians who settled on the island and the wealthy classes. During this period, a wreck passed through these waters that carried, among other things, fine canteen ceramics (sealed Italic) produced in Tuscany and which carried a crucible for galena on board. In the Middle Imperial Age, boats passed through the waters of San Teodoro carrying wine from southern Gaul and the Aegean, and oil and fish sauce from North Africa. The amphorae were accompanied by African products, such as kitchen ceramics and fine canteen ceramics (clearly sealed). From the Antoninian Itinerary (212-217 AD) we learn of the existence, near the current San Teodoro, of Coclearia, a station on the Roman road Olbia-Cagliari and a seaport. A wreck of a ship with a scattered deposit of ceramics, glass and metals, found in the seabed of Baia Salinedda dates back to the III-IV century AD. The center survived the end of the ancient world, gathering around a building dedicated to the cult of Saint Theodore, as evidenced by the remains of a Byzantine cemetery area. In the Middle Ages, the center, located in the Giudicato di Gallura, probably took the name of Villa de Offolle, hence the current name of San Teodoro di Oviddè. Arab merchants and pirates may have set up temporary bases in the area between Capo Coda Cavallo and the island of Molara.

Why it is important to visit it
It is important because the route contains in itself the history of the small coastal town through the finds and the historical reconstruction starting from 350 BC until the Middle Ages. The oldest exhibit on display is a Greco-Italic amphora.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Archaeology

Usability: Closed

Province: Sassari

Common: San Teodoro

Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 08020

Address: via Niuloni, 1

Telephone: +39 0784 866180 +39 347 7256278

E-mail: segreteria@icimar.it

Website: santeodoroturismo.it/listaservizi/i-ci-mar-museo-delle-civilta-del-mare www.icimar.it

January - December

Monday - Wednesday - Friday

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday - Thursday

4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Information on tickets and access: The museum is temporarily closed, the data on schedules and tickets on this sheet were in effect before the state of closure of the structure. Access to the archaeological section of the museum is free for all users.

Access mode: Free

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