Sassari 351
(present-day Corso Vittorio Emanuele) with its porticos and shops; the Palazzo
di Città situated on the same artery at the location of today’s Teatro Civico; the
platha de la Carra with its wheat measure identifiable as present-day piazza
Tola; the prison; the slaughterhouse; the public baths; and the wall with over
40 towers, four portals (named Capu de villa, Gurusele, S. Flasiu, and Utzeri),
and surrounded by a moat.36 The statutes contain significant information,
36 Roggio, “Spazi urbani e società.”
Figure 13.9 Tombs of the cathedral’s external cemetery during the
excavation.
With kind permission of the Archaeological
Superintendence of Sardinia, Italian Ministry
of Arts, Culture and Tourism.