Nuragic bronze statuettes

During the archaeological excavations in Sardinia, more than 500 bronze statuettes of this type have been discovered, mainly in places of worship like their holy wells, and the so-called megara temples, but also in villages and nuraghes.

Several statues were also found in excavations carried out in Etruscan tombs of central Italy from the 9th-8th centuries BCE.

Probably obtained with the lost wax technique, they can measure up to 39 cm.

They represent scenes of everyday life of the nuragic people, depicting characters from various social classes, animal figures, warriors, chiefs, divinities, everyday objects and ships.

Gonzalez (2012) dated the earliest types of bronze statuettes to the 12th-11th centuries BCE.