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with a clypeate cross that was painted red. Relatively recent restorations thor-
oughly disfigured the most representative churches of the entire group: San
Teodoro in Congius and Sant’Elia in Nux, whose interpretation must therefore
hinge almost entirely on archival photographic documentation. Despite its
excessive restoration, Santa Maria Isacalas also needs reexamination to deter-
mine its precise date of construction, which vacillates, depending on the schol-
ar, between the sixth and eleventh centuries. Restorations to the interior have
Figure 18.5 Cagliari. San Saturnino church plan.
From Salvi, 2002.