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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca. Tofet steles represented the parents’ thanks of the little dead to the gods for having received the gift of a new birth and the continuation of their descendance. The term Tofet is commonly used to identify a particular type of sanctuary present in the Phoenician and Punic cities of the central Mediterranean. The main part of the museum's collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island.  the ‘tofet’, a particular type of city sanctuary of Phoenician cultural matrix. The town still preserves the name of ‘Sa guard ‘e is pingiadas’ -the guard of the pots-, popular reminiscence of the presence of many ceramic containers that often emerged in the area.<br />
The term Tofet is commonly used to identify a particular type of sanctuary present in the Phoenician and Punic cities of the central Mediterranean. The tofet is a sacred area in the open air. On the natural rock or on the ground were placed urns containing the ashes of children ever born or prematurely dead, who were cremated and often accompanied by a funerary offer, mainly lambs and poultry also incinerated. The tofet was a sacred and funerary area dedicated to those who did not yet have a social defined identity, therefore they were entrusted to the divinities as in need of special protections and rituals.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, two Phoenician lions of Hittite or Syriac influence that once protected the gate of the Punic city. The archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island, the archeological museum Ferruccio Barreca preserves and displays a wide range of artifacts from the island. The main part of the collection it’s about the important urban settlement built on the eastern coasts of the island at the beginning of the eighth century. B.C., known by the name of Sulky or Sulci, port benchmark of the territorial district of the south-western Sardinia.
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  • Sant'Antioco island. The reconstruction of a Punic burial site in the hypogaeum village including a series of Punic tombs built between the late sixth and the end of the third century B. C. later adapted as houses from the poorer classes of the country; these underground places are known by the name of Is Gruttas, the caves.
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