Teti, Village of S'Urbale

The village is located in the Mandrolisai region. It looks from a hill towards the Coghinadorza lake valley, Monte Marghine, Monte Ballu and the hills lead to the Tirso Valley.
The village has so far about fifty huts. The rooms have a circular plan and are mostly built with rows of freshly sketched local granite blocks (remaining height 1/1.50 m). They often incorporate boulders of outcropping rock to give greater stability to structures.
The roof consisted of poles and branches, as in the current shepherds' pinnettas. Clay and cork were used as insulated materials for roofing and interiors.
The most recent excavation campaigns involved 11 rooms located in the highest part of the hill, since this sector of the village - given the ruggedness of the land - had not been upset by agricultural work and therefore offered the opportunity to investigate stratigraphic situations that were still intact.
The excavation of one of these huts, the so-called “room F” - built close to a large outcrop of natural rock at the highest point of the hill - has returned numerous and significant cultural elements.
The entrance, facing S, has a short passage smashed inward; two orthostatic slabs delimit the small access corridor.
The outer diameter measures 7.20 m. The thickness of the walls is 0.90 m, while the remaining height is 0.80 m.
On the N wall, there are still traces of the clay plaster that covered cork wedges used to plug small cracks in the masonry.
Near the entrance, a large granite slab was found fixed through numerous wedges, which was probably used as a support surface. On the N-O side, slabs fixed with knives delimited a small closet inside which numerous clay fusaioles of different shapes were found, spools, truncated pyramidal frame weights with a through hole, a clay pintadera, and more.
The firebox, located in the center of the room, quadrangular in shape, was made of clay placed on a crawl space of small stones that leveled the irregularity of the rocky plane. Near the fireplace, whitewashed pots with distinct necks, intact clay stoves, fragments of faired bowls, frame weights have emerged.
The objects found in this room, about a hundred, were immersed in a layer of loose carbonaceous earth rich in clay that came from the plaster of the walls and the pavement.
The homogeneity of the archaeological deposit in room F attests to only one phase of use of the environment, attributable to the 9th century BC. It is likely that the hut was suddenly abandoned due to a violent fire that caused the wooden roofs to collapse. In the other huts of the village, on the other hand, various cultural moments have been documented, ranging from the initial phases of the Middle Bronze Age to the early Iron Age.
A hut in S'Urbale is faithfully reconstructed, even in its furnishings, at the civic archaeological museum of Thetis.

History of excavations
The area was excavated for the first time in 1931 by Antonio Taramelli; excavations were resumed, in 1981, by Maria Ausilia Fadda.

Bibliography
A. Taramelli, “The Nuragic Village of S'Urbale”, in News of Excavations, 1931, pp. 45-77;
M.A. Fadda, “S'Urbale - Teti”, in Journal of Prehistoric Sciences, XXXVII, 1982, pp. 334-335;
M.A. Fadda, “Village of S'Urbale - Teti”, in Cultural Heritage Week: 10 years of activity in the territory of the Province of Nuoro, Nuoro, Ministry for Cultural and Environmental Heritage, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Environment, Archaeological Superintendence for the Provinces of Sassari and Nuoro Nuoro, Nuoro Operations Office, 1985, p. 80;
BUT. Fadda, “The village of S'Urbale (Teti-Nu). The materials of room F”, in Proceedings of the III Study Conference “A Millennium of Relations between Sardinia and the Mediterranean Countries” (Selargius-Cagliari, 27-30 November 1986), Cagliari, Provincial Administration-Department of Culture, pp. 53-58.

How to get There
At the exit of Thetis, take the road to Austis-Sorgono. After a few hundred meters, turn right into a dirt road and follow it until you reach the archaeological site, marked by a sign.

Tag

Structure category: archaeological area or park

Content type: Archaeological complex
Archaeology

Usability: Open

Province: Nuoro

Common: Teti

Macro Territorial Area: Central Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 08030

Address: SP 4

Telephone: +39 0784 68120 +39 328 8789521

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January - December

Tuesday

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

3:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Information on tickets and access: To book visits to the sanctuary of Abini, it is necessary to refer to the Archaeological Museum of Thetis or book here. Children up to 5 years old enter for free.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Cumulative integer : 15 €, , guided tour of the Nuragic village of S'Urbale and the Archaeological Museum of Teti .

Reduced cumulative : 10 €, school groups and groups of at least 20 people, children from 6 to 12 years old, guided tour of the Nuragic village of S'Urbale and the Archaeological Museum of Teti .