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10.4, no. 2), and an ivory fragment representing a warrior head with a boar’s-tusk helmet,
which probably decorated a wooden casket, from Mitza Purdia-Decimoputzu (Fig. 10.4,
no. 1). It is worth noting that the few sherds found in the Iberian Peninsula at Montoro-
Cordoba in the upper Guadalquivir valley are chronologically placed in the same period
(equivalent to the Iberian Las Cogotas 2 phase) (Martin de la Cruz 1988): what these
three discoveries along the western routes have in common is the fact that they are still
isolated, with no traces of other older preliminary contacts and, on the contrary, they are
located quite inland, along the rivers such as Flumendosa in the case of Nuraghe Arrubiu
and Guadalquivir in the case of Montoro, while the open site of Mitza Purdia lays at the
foot of the Sulcis-Iglesiente mountain region, rich in metal deposits.
Figure 10.3 The nuraghe Arrubiu, Orroli (Nuoro). Photo M. Mereu.Figure 10.4 Mycenaean materials found in Sardinia: 1. Ivory head with boar’s-tusk helmet
from Mitza Purdia, Decimoputzu (Cagliari); 2. Mycenaean alabastron from Arrubiu, Orroli (Nuoro);- Fragment of a Mycenaean imported rhyton\ 4. Local imitation of Mycenaean crater and
5. Nuragic “slate-gray” impasto basin from nuraghe Antigori, Sarroch (Cagliari).
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