Sacred Well of Sa Testa

The sacred well of Sa Testa, excavated in 1938 and restored in the late 1960s, is one of the best-known places of worship in Nuragic Sardinia. The well, which can be dated to the Final Bronze Age (12th-11th centuries BCE), consists of a large circular courtyard, in which sacred rituals probably took place, a small trapezoidal-shaped vestibule and a staircase of 17 steps leading to the well chamber. The latter, circular in shape, has a tholos roof about 5 meters high.

The materials found during the excavation testify to a frequentation of the site from the Nuragic age until the Roman age. We do not know which deity was worshipped in the sacred wells, in which water was only a basic element of the sacred rituals.

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