San Vero Milis, S'Uraki Complex

The complex is isolated in a vast rural plain.
S'Uraki is a large complex nuraghe almost completely buried. It is therefore impossible, at least at the current state of research, to describe its complete plan. However, recent excavation campaigns have highlighted and detected part of the outermost wall, which is striking for its extension, rather than for the height of the surviving walls.
Seven towers are clearly distinguished, connected together by rectilinear wall curtains with a residual height of about 3 meters on the current country level. The antewall then continued, towards S, below the old provincial road, where the remains of at least three other towers probably lie. At least until now, the entrance that led from these walls almost certainly into a courtyard from which you could access the innermost towers of the nuraghe has not been highlighted. The rest of the building is completely underground and looks almost like a hill about 5-6 meters high. Despite this, the magnificence of the outer wall undoubtedly places the S'Uraki nuraghe among the largest in Sardinia in terms of size and complexity. Investigations so far have not made it possible to establish a precise dating for the nuragic complex.
A village stretched around the nuraghe. From the nuraghe area comes the famous Cypriot bronze torch, dating from the end of the 8th to the beginning of the 7th century BC. Even in Roman times, the area was frequented and buildings were built above the buried remains of the nuraghe; a road passed next to the antewall.

History of excavations
The nuraghe is being excavated.

Bibliography
G. Lilliu, “Of an Paleosardinian candlestick from the Cagliari Museum”, in Studi Sardi, VIII, 1948, pp. 5-42;
G. Tore, “Around a Cypriot bronze 'torch' from San Vero Milis (S'Uraki) Oristano”, in Society and Culture in Sardinia in the Orientalizing and Archaic Periods (late 8th century BC): relations between Sardinia, Phoenicians, Etruscans and Greeks, Cagliari, 1986; S. Moscato, “Phoenician and Greek testimonies”, Cagliari, 1986; S. Moscato, “Phoenician, Phoenician and Greek testimonies” Punic in Oristano”, in Proceedings of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lyncei, 31, 1, Rome, 1988.