A Pilgrim Flask from Nuraghe S’Urachi (San Vero Milis-OR) in Its Sardinian Context

Abstract

The discovery of several fragments of a pilgrim flask from nuraghe S’Urachi (San Vero Milis, Sardinia) opens the discussion to the evidence of such artefacts in Sardinia in the early first millennium BCE. After presenting the flask, the article discusses their form, origin and location on the island and their use between the local Sardinian communities of the Iron Age and the foreign Phoenician settlers. Despite having Near Eastern antecedents, these are one of the few pottery types to have been adapted by local Sardinian craftsmen enabling them, albeit in limited numbers, to be both part of the late Nuragic ceramic panorama and that of the incoming Phoenician culture.