Monte d’Accoddi: The Neolithic Altar Near Sassari
Sardinia, Italy
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Monte d’Accoddi: The Neolithic Altar Near Sassari
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Monte d’Accoddi stands in the comune of Sassari, founded between 4000 and 3650 BC and enlarged between 2800 and 2400 BC: a truncated pyramid 37.5 metres by 30.5 and about nine metres high, climbed by a ramp of 41.5 metres. A limestone slab of 8.2 tonnes and a squared menhir of 4.4 metres lie beside it. Its shape has it compared to the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, which is a resemblance and nothing more.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Walk the full 41.5 metres of the access ramp, which widens from seven metres to thirteen and a half as it climbs, and go up onto the platform the way it was meant to be approached
2
of 4
Pace the platform itself: a truncated pyramid 37.5 metres on the north and south sides, 30.5 on the east and west, standing about nine metres
3
of 4
Find the limestone slab beside the ramp, eight point two tonnes of it, and the squared menhir of four metres forty and five point seven tonnes
4
of 4
Judge the ziggurat comparison for yourself. The shape invites it and the books repeat it, but nothing links this to Mesopotamia — it was founded between 4000 and 3650 BC and enlarged between 2800 and 2400 BC, on its own
Walk the full 41.5 metres of the access ramp, which widens from seven metres to thirteen and a half as it climbs, and go up onto the platform the way it was meant to be approached
Pace the platform itself: a truncated pyramid 37.5 metres on the north and south sides, 30.5 on the east and west, standing about nine metres
Find the limestone slab beside the ramp, eight point two tonnes of it, and the squared menhir of four metres forty and five point seven tonnes
Judge the ziggurat comparison for yourself. The shape invites it and the books repeat it, but nothing links this to Mesopotamia — it was founded between 4000 and 3650 BC and enlarged between 2800 and 2400 BC, on its own
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