Necropolis of Montessu
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 20, 2026 01:22 PM
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History
The Necropolis of Montessu is located near Villaperuccio, Sardinia. It is the site of about 40 domus de Janas tombs and dates to the third millennium B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/991190962
39.1332486354, 8.66749214784
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Necropoli di Montessu (3000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Necropolis of Montessu (English, modern)
- Necropolis of Montessu part of (physical/topographic) Sardinia (island) (3000 BC - 2000 BC)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Lindsay Holman, and Tom Elliott, 'Necropolis of Montessu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/991190962> [accessed: 12 February 2026]
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