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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Tempio di AntasCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 8.644 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Sardinia (Sardegna) Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Iglesias Nearest Village: Fluminimaggiore
Latitude: 39.393930N Longitude: 8.500280E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Additional information submitted by Drew Parsons October 2010: This valley has an interesting history. Antas was first setttled by Nuragic people and the site is thought to have been a sacred area from those times. It was adopted by the Carthaginians in the 4th century BC. Rich deposits of lead and iron were discovered in the area which attracted Roman interest. The Roman Temple which remains today was dedicated to the god Sardus Pater Babai. There is a Nuragic village nearby, a Roman Road and quarry and nature walkways here too. Although lost there were records of the site from Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD. Using this information Bishop Fasa from Sassari explored the area in 1580 trying to locate the temple. In 1838 Lamamora found parts of columns but it was not until 1967 that the exact location and importance of the site was discovered. The 1967-8 excavations uncovered Carthaginian material and the 1984 excavations the Late Bronze Age finds of burnt human and animal bones linking the site to Nuragic culture. The site is well signposted along the S126 twisting hill road from Guspini to Inglesias. There is a car park, ticket and information office and small shop at the site.
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