The Mother Goddess and other finds from the Putzese territory, which are kept in the Archaeological Museum in Cagliari, were found from the second half of the 1800s through the early 1900s and the 1980s-90s. These are finds from different eras: the Mother Goddess, for example, belongs to the Middle Neolithic or Recent Neolithic; the finds unearthed by Prof. Ugas in the domus de Janas, the so-called “Tomb of the Warriors,” number about 540, and a good portion of them are preserved in the archaeological museum. Other artifacts are not on display, but have been mentioned in archaeological literature as having been found in Decimoputzu (e.g.: the gold coin of Emperor Phocas, from 600 A.D., the Byzantine period; also the four coins from the medieval period, ranging from c. 1100 to 1550, found in the church of St. George; other epigraphic-type materials such as the two pairs of Byzantine stelae from the 10th century, in which the names of the first judges of Cagliari are engraved in Greek characters. These artifacts are kept in the museum’s storerooms. The alabaster statuette of the Mother Goddess was found in the locality “Su Cungiau de Marcu.”
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