A face, single hands, armed gloves, a bow, quivers and still parts of legs with wounds and traces of red, fragments of a torso and nuraghe models, horns that were once part of the warriors' helmets and many other fragments, 31 in all. It is the new treasure that has been in the civic museum of Cabras since yesterday . Other pieces discovered in Mont'e Prama in the 1970s have therefore returned to their place of origin. With the transfer to the Mont'e Prama Foundation of the sculptural fragments that are part of the Mont'e Prama statuary complex, until now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari, a new page of Cabrarese history is being written.
The collaboration between the Ministry and the Civic Museum of the Sinis town continues to give confirmation to a territory which, piece by piece, sees not only the statues of the Giants returning to the lagoon but also the other artifacts found on the most famous hill of the Sinis . The agreement was signed by the Foundation and the director of the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari Francesco Muscolino. From today, therefore, the Cabras museum is enriched with thirty-one new fragments that recount experiences of three thousand years ago , when cyclopean works were created in the Sinis, with an uncommon artistic ability. A treasure that after a careful exhibition study in the next few days will already be visible in the rooms of the Cabras museum.
The director of the Mont'e Prama Foundation Nadia Canu , who took care of the transport with the restorer Davide Tomassi, comments: «We are delighted to have received this Christmas present early . Precisely from these fragments, together with those still preserved in the Restoration Center of the Superintendency of Sassari in Li Punti, the concerted inventory work will start in January with the offices of the Ministry of Culture and, hopefully within a few months, we hope to resume the restoration activities, where they had been interrupted for more than ten years».